Jay Clayton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay Clayton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Clayton |
| SIGNATURE | CLAYTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vanderbilt University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3569-4853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
DNA Doesn’t Lie
Law and Order: Special Victims Unit ( SVU ) (1999–present) is a popular primetime drama that spotlights the use of genetic information to solve crimes. Despite the show’s heavy reliance on the forensic use of DNA evidence, the role of genetics in defining family and identity arises in complex ways. Many episodes wrestle with social, ethical, and legal questions that reflect assumptions about genetic essentialism and genetic determinism, but count…
Autonomy and bioethics in fan responses to Orphan Black
Viewers’ responses to Orphan Black (2013–2017), a popular, genetics-themed sci-fi television series, reveal much about public understanding of the ethical challenges associated with genetic science. In this article, we assess how fans of Orphan Black process the bioethical themes that are prominent in the show through an analysis of 182 viewer-created blog posts. Using a mixed methods approach, our findings reveal that Orphan Black ’s fans distil…
Race, Gender, and Genetic Privacy in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me
This essay analyzes two 1990s memoirs of women struggling with hereditary mental illness, who express anxiety about revealing their conditions and about whether their revelations will violate the privacy of their close relations. Midcentury confessional poetry influences the modes of self-disclosure in Kay Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind (1995) and Meri Nana-Ama Danquah's Willow Weep for Me (1998), though the memoirs feature concerns about gen…
Eugenics and genetic screening in television medical dramas
Medical dramas offer unique insights into the way popular media makes sense of genetic technology and the ethics of its applications. In this paper we evaluate the contrasting depictions in television medical dramas of reproductive genetic screening and eugenics-two medical themes that some commentators see as closely related. By conducting a content analysis of 32 episodes of doctor shows featuring eugenic and/or genetic screening themes, we put…
The End of Genetic Privacy in the Blade Runner Canon
Genetics in Film and TV, 1912-2020
Dramatic events such as the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the mapping of the human genome, the proliferation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing services, and the promise of genetic science to alleviate suffering and disease have generated much public attention over the past several decades.Although the recent explosion of genetics research has captured the public imagination, the attention to genetics-related issues is hardly a new phenomenon.Fr…
Introduction
The articles in this double special issue of the Journal of Literature and Science address the topic of genetic privacy in literature, film, and TV, from the early decades of the twentieth century, when the eugenics movement was just becoming aware of genetics, to the twenty-first century, when clones, chimeras, and gene-editing are as common at the multiplex as in the laboratory.Genetic privacy is a matter of increasing concern in today's societ…
Genetics in Television Medical Dramas
Since beginning their run in the early 1950s, medical dramas have been a staple of American primetime television, growing steadily in both quantity and popularity (Rochi).Although genetics has never been the principal focus of these shows, the thread of genetics has been woven into the genre over the decades.The first episode of a medical drama to feature genetics was the premiere of the fourth season of Ben Casey (1961)(1962)(1963)(1964)(1965)(1…
Genetics and Ethics in the ‘I am Legend’ Corpus
I. Introduction: One Story over Fifty YearsSkin bakes under the harsh blue light of an ultraviolet lamp.A subject lays limp on a medical gurney, restrained at the wrists and ankles in an underground laboratory.Her chest is heaving with exertion and the heart rate monitor is racing.A man in a white lab coat speaks into his audio recorder: "Extreme reaction to UV exposure.Symptoms and tissue samples confirm subject is infected with KV.Vaccine test:…
Queer Kinship
The acclaimed Canadian television series Orphan Black (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017) poses a question straight out of the pages of science fiction: What would it be like to encounter multiple versions of yourself in the form of clones that you never knew you had? Reared in completely different environments, each clone develops a unique personality, astonishingly portrayed by the actress Tatiana Maslany, who performs twelve different roles (often …
Time considered as a helix of infinite possibilities
This article explores the temporal implications of genomics through the lens of a classic science fiction story by Samuel R Delany, 'Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones'. Delany's futuristic vision of 'hologramic information storage', which allows the interplanetary Special Services to discover and predict everything a suspect has done or will be doing at any time in the past, present or future resembles 'genome time', the illusion…
‘You’ve Got Mail’
Although the Victorian period gave birth to a strong tradition of critique of technology and industrialization, it also fostered a counter-tradition: a new and generative technological imaginary. In recent years, scholars of Victorian culture have begun to map out this technological imaginary in readings of canonical Victorian novels by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Gaskell. This chapter surveys this recent critical work, then turn…
Genome time
Touching the Telectroscope
In May 2008, two enormous drills burst upward through piers on the South Bank, London (Figure Via the magic of satellite video conferencing, spectators, for a small fee, could wave and dance and scrawl messages to their counterparts across the pond. The massive faux-Victorian viewing tubes were only the tangible manifestations of a more elaborate fiction. On an accompanying web site and blog, the artist tells the story of his (imaginary) greatgra…
Collaboration Across the Disciplines
Collaboration Across the Disciplines: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Jay Clayton (bio) The two articles in this section of Literature and Medicine were written by members of an experiment in interdisciplinary pedagogy that gave advanaced Ph.D. students in English an opportunity to collaborate with faculty at Vanderbilt Medical School. The articles are not only excellent contributions to scholarship in their own right but also example…
A History of Russian Cinema
A History of Russian Cinema BIRGIT BEUMERS Oxford and New York, Berg, 2008 viii + 328 pp., illus., $29.95 (pbk), $109.95 (cloth) Dr Birgit Beumers of Bristol University is well known for her work o
Editors' Preface
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Victorian Chimeras, or, What Literature Can Contribute to Genetics Policy Today
Through a comparison of H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Thomas Huxley's writings with recent U.S. policy decisions concerning stem cell research and the creation of chimeras, this article proposes that literary study should play a greater role in genetics policy debates. Cultural representations of genetics carry wide influence, and ethics commissions increasingly invoke literary and historical precedents to buttress their conclusions. …
Dimitry's Shade
In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two hundred years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state. Dimitry's Shade makes a startling departure from the traditional interpretation of Boris Godunov as the som…
Convergence of the Two Cultures
Research Article| December 01 2002 Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature Jay Clayton Jay Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-807 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jay Clayton; Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contempor…
The Pleasures of Babel
Laboratory of Dreams
Note on transliteration, Russian place names, and dates Contributors Introduction John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich Part I. Life Creation: The Search for a New Body: 1. The transfiguration of cannibals: Fedorov and the Avant-Garde Irene Masing-Delic 2. Body beautiful: the artistic search for the perfect physique John E. Bowlt 3. Remaking the bed: Utopia in daily life Olga Matich Part II. Scientific Discovery and Cultural Innovation: 4. Media fantasie…
The Pleasures of Babel
The Pleasures of Babel
Narrative and Theories of Desire
The Theory and Practice of Poetic Translation in Pushkin and Nabokov
(1983). The Theory and Practice of Poetic Translation in Pushkin and Nabokov. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 25, Canadian Contributions to the XI International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, 1983, pp. 90-100
Convergence of the Two Cultures
Research Article| December 01 2002 Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature Jay Clayton Jay Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-807 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jay Clayton; Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contempor…
Towards a Feminist Reading of Evgenii Onegin
(1987). Towards a Feminist Reading of Evgenii Onegin. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 29, No. 2-3, pp. 255-265
Night and Wind
(1984). Night and Wind: Images and Allusions as the Source of the Poetic in Turgenev’s Rudin. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 10-14
New Directions in Soviet Criticism on Evgenii Onegin
AbstractLa littérature critique sur Evgenii Onegin de A.S. Pushkin publiée en Union Soviétique pendant les dernières dix années a attiré assez peu d’attention en Amérique du Nord. Cependant, elle s’avère d’un grand intérêt.En effet l’étude du roman en vers a été dominée pendant longtemps par une interprétation traditionelle. Cette interprétation, dérivée de celle de Belinskii, a surtout mis l’accent sur le réalisme, sur le contenu national (narod…
Note
Soviet Views of Parody
Visionary Power and Narrative Form
Considérations sur la chronologie interne de Evgenii Onegin
AbstractThe problem of the internal chronology of Evgenii Onegin has been studied by a number of critics, the calendar proposed by Ivanov-Razumnik being generally acceptea. The question of the chronology and the function of time in the work cannot be properly discussed without some consideration of the structure of the work.It is therefore proposed that the text be assumed to be composed of two elements, a novel world and an authorial world, the …
New Directions in Soviet Criticism on Evgenii Onegin
AbstractLa littérature critique sur Evgenii Onegin de A.S. Pushkin publiée en Union Soviétique pendant les dernières dix années a attiré assez peu d’attention en Amérique du Nord. Cependant, elle s’avère d’un grand intérêt.En effet l’étude du roman en vers a été dominée pendant longtemps par une interprétation traditionelle. Cette interprétation, dérivée de celle de Belinskii, a surtout mis l’accent sur le réalisme, sur le contenu national (narod…
The Russian Mignons
AbstractLa tâche du traducteur du texte poétique est rendue difficile par le nombre d’éléments enjeu. L’examen de quinze traductions russes, dont les auteurs comprennent Zhukovskii, Tiutchev, Maikov, Pasternak et autres, du poème “Mignon” de Goethe permet d’évaluer et de classifier la traduction poétique en russe.Si on considère les traductions du côté formel, on trouved’énormesdifférences quant à la fidélité à la métrique, au système de rimes, e…
The Theory and Practice of Poetic Translation in Pushkin and Nabokov
(1983). The Theory and Practice of Poetic Translation in Pushkin and Nabokov. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 25, Canadian Contributions to the XI International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, 1983, pp. 90-100
Night and Wind
(1984). Night and Wind: Images and Allusions as the Source of the Poetic in Turgenev’s Rudin. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 10-14
Ice and Flame
Towards a Feminist Reading of Evgenii Onegin
(1987). Towards a Feminist Reading of Evgenii Onegin. Canadian Slavonic Papers: Vol. 29, No. 2-3, pp. 255-265
Notes and Comments
Narrative and Theories of Desire
Issues in Russian Literature before 1917
Issues in Russian Literature before 1917
The Pleasures of Babel
The Pleasures of Babel
The Pleasures of Babel
Laboratory of Dreams
Note on transliteration, Russian place names, and dates Contributors Introduction John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich Part I. Life Creation: The Search for a New Body: 1. The transfiguration of cannibals: Fedorov and the Avant-Garde Irene Masing-Delic 2. Body beautiful: the artistic search for the perfect physique John E. Bowlt 3. Remaking the bed: Utopia in daily life Olga Matich Part II. Scientific Discovery and Cultural Innovation: 4. Media fantasie…
Convergence of the Two Cultures
Research Article| December 01 2002 Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contemporary Literature Jay Clayton Jay Clayton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (4): 807–831. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-4-807 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jay Clayton; Convergence of the Two Cultures: A Geek's Guide to Contempor…
Dimitry's Shade
In an ambitious reinterpretation of the premier work of Russia's national poet, J. Douglas Clayton reads Boris Godunov as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state, especially the Russian state of his own time (some two hundred years distant from the events of the play), and even his own place within that state. Dimitry's Shade makes a startling departure from the traditional interpretation of Boris Godunov as the som…
Editors' Preface
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Victorian Chimeras, or, What Literature Can Contribute to Genetics Policy Today
Through a comparison of H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau and Thomas Huxley's writings with recent U.S. policy decisions concerning stem cell research and the creation of chimeras, this article proposes that literary study should play a greater role in genetics policy debates. Cultural representations of genetics carry wide influence, and ethics commissions increasingly invoke literary and historical precedents to buttress their conclusions. …
A History of Russian Cinema
A History of Russian Cinema BIRGIT BEUMERS Oxford and New York, Berg, 2008 viii + 328 pp., illus., $29.95 (pbk), $109.95 (cloth) Dr Birgit Beumers of Bristol University is well known for her work o
Collaboration Across the Disciplines
Collaboration Across the Disciplines: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Jay Clayton (bio) The two articles in this section of Literature and Medicine were written by members of an experiment in interdisciplinary pedagogy that gave advanaced Ph.D. students in English an opportunity to collaborate with faculty at Vanderbilt Medical School. The articles are not only excellent contributions to scholarship in their own right but also example…
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