Between logos and mythos: Narratives of "naturalness" in today's particle physics community

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Between logos and mythos: Narratives of "naturalness" in today's particle physics community. / Borrelli, Arianna.
Narrated Communities - Narrated Realities: Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice. ed. / Hermann Blume; Christoph Leitgeb; Michael Rössner. Brill Rodopi, 2015. p. 69-83 (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online; Vol. 183).

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Harvard

Borrelli, A 2015, Between logos and mythos: Narratives of "naturalness" in today's particle physics community. in H Blume, C Leitgeb & M Rössner (eds), Narrated Communities - Narrated Realities: Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, vol. 183, Brill Rodopi, pp. 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004184121_006

APA

Borrelli, A. (2015). Between logos and mythos: Narratives of "naturalness" in today's particle physics community. In H. Blume, C. Leitgeb, & M. Rössner (Eds.), Narrated Communities - Narrated Realities: Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice (pp. 69-83). (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online; Vol. 183). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004184121_006

Vancouver

Borrelli A. Between logos and mythos: Narratives of "naturalness" in today's particle physics community. In Blume H, Leitgeb C, Rössner M, editors, Narrated Communities - Narrated Realities: Narration as Cognitive Processing and Cultural Practice. Brill Rodopi. 2015. p. 69-83. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online). doi: 10.1163/9789004184121_006

Bibtex

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