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