TY - BOOK ID - 17936 TI - Quarks and Letters. Natural Sciences in Contemporary Literature and Culture AU - v. Heydenreich, Aura AU - Mecke, Klaus PY - 2015 SN - 9783110406542 9783110417609 DB - DOAB KW - Literature, Science, Physics UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:17936 AB - Issues and insights from the fields of brain research, quantum mechanics, and evolutionary theory have passed into novels, and physicists and biologists often use rhetorical metaphors to communicate and even evoke their discoveries. The essays in this volume examine natural scientific themes in literary texts – such as the novels of Richard Powers, Can Hue, and Raoul Schrott – and the use of rhetoric and metaphor in the natural sciences. ER -