Genetics and Literature

Vanderbilt University – Spring, 2009
 
 

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: childhood, children, experimentation, genetics, gold bug variations, jay clayton, linguistics, literary allusion, richard powers, yeats


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


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