Genetics and Literature

Vanderbilt University – Spring, 2009
 
 

Intertextuality and Ecology in The Gold Bug Variations

• March 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Evolution, Gold Bug Variations, Science and humanities
Tags: allusion, ecology, intertextuality, richard powers


Is the Genetic Code Bourgeois?

• March 12, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Darwin, Double Helix, Evolution, Gender, Genetic determinism, Gold Bug Variations
Tags: bourgeois, heteronormativity, richard powers, The Gold Bug Variations


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


Awareness and Endings

• March 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Gold Bug Variations, Science and humanities
Tags: Bach, behavior, DNA, Interpretation, Mozart, Patterns, richard powers, The Human Genome Project


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