From Scientific Utopia to Grotesque Dystopia: Hubris and Hybrids in Joyce Carol Oates’s “The Experimental Subject”

Joyce Carol Oates’s “The Experimental Subject,” published in 2018, is the story of the fictional realization of a most disconcerting scientific utopia: the creation of a human-chimp hybrid. Oates describes with a clinical coldness, tinged with irony, the details of this experiment, which, however gr...

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Auteur principal: Maerten, Stéphanie
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Journal of the Short Story in English 2025
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