Literature and Social Justice : Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism /

Can reading social protest novels actually produce a more just world? Literature and Social Justice offers a scientifically informed, evidence-based affirmative answer to that crucial question, arguing that literature has the potential--albeit largely unrealized--to produce lasting, socially transfo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bracher, Mark, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edición:First paperback edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Protest
Widerstand
Roman.
Social justice in literature.
Protest literature, American.
Justice, Administration of, in literature.
Justice sociale dans la litterature.
Justice > Administration, dans la litterature.
Litterature contestataire americaine > Histoire et critique.
Protest literature, American > History and criticism.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. The psychological basis for a cognitive poitics of social justice
  • Cognitive science for a new social criticism
  • Part II. The cognitive roots of injustice : four person-schemas
  • Autonomism versus situationism : responsibility for behavior and life outcomes
  • Essentialism versus malleability : responsibility for character
  • Atomism versus solidarity : relation of self to others
  • Homogeneity versus heterogeneity : the structure of character
  • Part III. How protest novels work to replace faulty person-schemas
  • The jungle
  • The grapes of wrath
  • Native son
  • Part IV. A radical cognitive social criticism
  • Schema criticism : radical cognitive politics
  • Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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