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Against a backdrop of the history of the gene as a scientific and a cultural icon, How the Gene Got Its Groove examines how “genes” function as rhetorical objects. Returning to Wilhelm Johannsen’s original argument for the term, Elizabeth Parthenia Shea maintains that the gene was, first and foremost, a rhetorical invention, designed to lay claim to a material reality and to dissociate itself from the problems of language, conjecture, and rhetorical uncertainty. She traces the rhetorical work of

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Author

Elizabeth Parthenia Shea; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781435648487

Category

science

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Psychology

Updated

2026-03-25