Epigenetics and poetry: challenges to genetic determinism in Michael Byers' Long for this World and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's 'The Four Year Old Girl'

The essay explores how a poem, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poem 'The Four Year Old Girl' (1998), and a novel, Michael Byers's Long for This World (2003), draw on the resources of the aesthetic to reflect on epistemological, ethical, and affective consequences of genetic variation tha...

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Main Author: Middleton, Peter (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015-05.
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