Fiction as Evolutionary Force in Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement
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This essay argues that Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement attempts to expand the notion of fiction into the discourse of human evolution. In the novel, the humanities, including literature, seems to be lost amid a deluge of rearticulations of humanity by recent sciences, particularly genomics and neuroscience, and science flatters itself as the only discipline that can liberate human beings from old fictions by the humanities and draw happier human enhancement with its nonfictional knowledge. Emphasizing that science is also a type of fiction, or creative nonfiction, however, the novel claims that it is fiction that motivates human evolution and literature, as a creative embodiment of fiction, serves to illustrate how fiction rewrites science and humanity.
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This essay argues that Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement attempts to expand the notion of fiction into the discourse of human evolution. In the novel, the humanities, including literature, seems to be lost amid a deluge of rearticulations of humanity by recent sciences, particularly genomics and neuroscience, and science flatters itself as the only discipline that can liberate human beings from old fictions by the humanities and draw happier human enhancement with its nonfictional knowledge. Emphasizing that science is also a type of fiction, or creative nonfiction, however, the novel claims that it is fiction that motivates human evolution and literature, as a creative embodiment of fiction, serves to illustrate how fiction rewrites science and humanity.
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