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Reading Popular Physics - Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,617
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Reading Popular Physics - Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies (Hardcover, New Ed): Elizabeth Leane

Reading Popular Physics - Disciplinary Skirmishes and Textual Strategies (Hardcover, New Ed)

Elizabeth Leane

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Elizabeth Leane's Reading Popular Physics is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the nature and implications of physics popularizations. A literary critic trained in science, Leane treats popular science writing as a distinct and significant genre, focusing particularly on five bestselling books: Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, Steven Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, James Gleick's Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop's Complexity, and Gary Zukav's The Dancing Wu Li Masters. Leane situates her examination of the texts within the heated interdisciplinary exchanges known as the 'Science Wars', focusing specifically on the disputed issue of the role of language in science. Her use of literary analysis reveals how popular science books function as sites for 'disciplinary skimishes', as she uncovers the ways in which popularizers of science influence the public. In addition to their explicit discussion of scientific concepts, Leane argues, these authors employ subtle textual strategies that encode claims about the nature and status of scientific knowledge-claims that are all the more powerful because they are unacknowledged.Her book will change the way these texts are read, offering readers a fresh perspective on this highly visible and influential genre.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2007
First published: 2007
Authors: Elizabeth Leane
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-5850-4
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
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LSN: 0-7546-5850-3
Barcode: 9780754658504

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