Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement (2009): Transhumanism, Metafiction and the Ethics of Increasing Human Happiness Levels through Biotechnology
This paper analyzes Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement (2009), a self-reflexive novel in which Powers explores some of the possibilities and challenges of increasing human happiness levels through biotechnology. As this work sets out to show, Powers’s greatest success in the novel may be hi...
Main Author: | Carmen Laguarta Bueno |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (AEDEAN)
2022-12-01
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Series: | Atlantis |
Online Access: | https://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/856 |
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