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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ratnabali Publisher
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry |
| Online Access: | http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/86 |
| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 2349-8064 |