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biopoetics en · NOUN

Etymology

From bio- + poetics.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A form of literary criticism that takes into account biopsychological processes.
    • 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. 2007 November 4, D. T. Max, “Swanns Hypothesis”, in New York Times: