Genomics and genre Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds Lara Choksey Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 232 pp

Autor: Luís Antônio Monteiro Campos
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Science. 371:578-578
ISSN: 1095-9203
0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.abf6096
Popis: "If the double helix is an icon of the modern age, then the genome is one of the last grand narratives of modernity," writes Lara Choksey in her new book, Narrative in the Age of the Genome. Hybridizing literary criticism with a genre-spanning consideration of a dozen distinct literary works, and imbued throughout with deep concern for the peripheral, the possible, and the political, the book seeks to challenge the "whole imaginative apparatus for constructing the self into a coherent narrative, via the lexicon and syntax of the molecular."
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