Today we repeat our May 25th episode with poet, dramatist, essayist, and novelist, Thalia Field. This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the scientific methodology of the Positivists and Claude Bernard; a reading of a medical journal article on the “insanity” of antivivisectionists; the tragedy …
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Interchange – Captivating Fictions with Thalia Field (Extended)
This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the scientific methodology of the Positivists and Claude Bernard; a reading of a medical journal article on the “insanity” of antivivisectionists; the tragedy of Charles Darwin’s “support” for vivisection. Radio Version of Captivating Fictions RELATED Personhood (New Directions website) …
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