Biopoetics
noun
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Noun
- 1 A form of literary criticism that takes into account biopsychological processes. uncountable
"There is a literary-scientific movement called biopoetics, led by the Harvard professor E. O. Wilson, that wants the humanities, as he wrote in his 1999 book Consilience, rationalized."
Example
More examples"There is a literary-scientific movement called biopoetics, led by the Harvard professor E. O. Wilson, that wants the humanities, as he wrote in his 1999 book Consilience, rationalized."
Etymology
From bio- + poetics.
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