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The Runaway sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis

Choksey, Lara; (2015) The Runaway sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis. Sanglap: A Journal of Cultural Enquiry , 2 (1) pp. 25-49. Green open access

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Abstract

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).

Type: Article
Title: The Runaway sign: Semiotic Adaptation in Literary Analysis
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/a...
Language: English
Additional information: This article is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Keywords: Science Fiction, Doris Lessing, Biosemiotics, Sociobiology, Epigenetics
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182216
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