linguistics « Genetics and Literature

Freedom is Unfreedom: How to avoid headaches when conceptual boundaries dissolve

• March 28, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Collaboration in Humanities
Tags: analogy, biology, Capitalism, Charles Dickens, Dickens, disease, epidemics, freedom, linguistics, Little Dorrit, money, Reginia Gagnier, unfreedom

Children: Experiment and Exploration in The Gold Bug Variations

• March 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Double Helix, Gold Bug Variations, Science and humanities
Tags: linguistics, genetics, gold bug variations, richard powers, childhood, children, experimentation, jay clayton, yeats, literary allusion

Animalistic Interactions in Oryx and Crake

• February 19, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Chimeras, Oryx and Crake, Posthuman
Tags: animals, anthropomorphism, linguistics, Margaret Atwood, storytelling

Linguistic Determinism and H. G. Wells

• February 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Chimeras, Genetic engineering, Island of Dr. Moreau
Tags: animals and language, Island of Dr. Moreau, linguistics, victorian stereotypes, wells

Genealogies and Language

• January 22, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Ethics of science, Evolution, Posthuman, Science and humanities
Tags: androgyny, apes, Darwin, epistemology, Evolution, Genealogy, geology, language, linguistics, metaphor, Origin of Species, Penis