Essays about: "Meredith Ann Pierce"

Found 1 essay containing the words Meredith Ann Pierce.

  1. 1. "Why Did I Live"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Tora Åsling; [2020]
    Keywords : Mary Shelley; Meredith Ann Pierce; Humanism; Posthumanism; Anthropocentrism; Speciesism; Artificial Life; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis studies how Mary Shelley and Meredith Ann Pierce criticise Western patriarchal societies through the depiction of the creation of artificial life. The thesis discusses how Shelley and Pierce’s critique consequently includes a critique of Humanism, since the school of thought had a pivotal role in the formation of the civilizational model of these Western societies. READ MORE