The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis
This article derives a notion of adaptation as a semiotic process from the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer and the Copenhagen-Tartu school of biosemiotics, suggesting it as way of considering fictional writing on genetics and evolution both empirically and analogically. Along these lines, I read changes in...
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| description | This article derives a notion of adaptation as a semiotic process from the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer and the Copenhagen-Tartu school of biosemiotics, suggesting it as way of considering fictional writing on genetics and evolution both empirically and analogically. Along these lines, I read changes in significations of reproduction and inheritance in Doris Lessing’s The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980).
Keywords: Science Fiction; Doris Lessing; Biosemiotics; Sociobiology; Epigenetics. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec31295e7b52466c82ac3af83d4a1a772022-12-22T03:37:32ZengBoibhashikSanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry2349-80642015-07-012186The Runaway Sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary AnalysisLara Choksey0University of WarwickThis article derives a notion of adaptation as a semiotic process from the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer and the Copenhagen-Tartu school of biosemiotics, suggesting it as way of considering fictional writing on genetics and evolution both empirically and analogically. Along these lines, I read changes in significations of reproduction and inheritance in Doris Lessing’s The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980). Keywords: Science Fiction; Doris Lessing; Biosemiotics; Sociobiology; Epigenetics.http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/86 |
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