biopoetics

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noun

A form of literary criticism that takes into account biopsychological processes.

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Meanings

nounbiopoetics (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA 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

Origin

From bio- + poetics.

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APA

biopoetics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biopoetics

MLA

“biopoetics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biopoetics. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “biopoetics,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biopoetics.

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