biopoetics

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ poetics

Noun

biopoetics (uncountable)

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

     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.