Life, Re-Scaled. The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance. Liliane Campos and Pierre-Louis Pantoine (eds.). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022, 398 p.
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Claire Cazajous-Augé, « Life, Re-Scaled. The Biological Imagination in 21st-Century Literature and Performance. Liliane Campos and Pierre-Louis Pantoine (eds.). Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2022, 398 p. », Caliban
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Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has had a tremendous influence on artists all through the 19th and 20th centuries: it has encouraged writers, poets and playwrights to resort to new artistic forms in order to take into account the emerging fields of evolutionary biology and genetics. More recently, our biological imagination has been reinvigorated by the recent discoveries of DNA and mapping of genes. By challenging human exceptionalism, such discoveries have led artists to invent new devices...
