In response to Krystal - full post here
The good news is that anthropocentrism doesn't frequent the literary scene very often because anthropomorphism, as you have stated, is much more appealing to readers. Anthropocentrism, instead, comes into play during the critique or analysis; we don't want people actually thinking that pigs and cows and whales can think, otherwise we may lose fishing, and meat industries. Anthropocentrism is very powerful; though writers will write about intelligent pigs (Charlotte's Web, for instance), people do not actually believe that pigs can be that intelligent. It may be a slight over exaggeration, but pigs are fairly intelligent, sadly, we don't give them their proper worth, with the exception of literature. Though, to be honest, I do not think that the anthropomorphism means much to the pigs who are slaughtered by the hundred thousands to be consumed by humans; Anthropocentrism plays a large part in the meat industry.
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