Article Title
From Biopolitics to Biopoetics: a Hypothesis on the Relationship between Life and Writing
Abstract
The objective of this article is to examine the theoretical potential of the dialogues between literary critique and biopolitical thought, with an analysis centered on a reconsideration of the concept of interpretation. In order to accomplish this, we analyze the shift in Michel Foucault’s thought around the beginning of the 1970s, a time during which the notion of life took prominence over the study of literature as a specific discipline. From this transformation, a particular way of approaching both literary and, generally speaking, artistic creations can be derived that would give rise to a biopoetics perspective.
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Yelin, Julieta.
"From Biopolitics to Biopoetics: a Hypothesis on the Relationship between Life and Writing."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
20.4
(2018):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3365>
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