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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bracher, Mark, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 transformative psychological changes in readers. Moving beyond traditional social criticism in its various forms, including feminist, gender, queer, and postcolonialist approaches, Mark Bracher uses new knowledge concerning the cognitive structures and processes that constitute the psychological roots of social injustice to develop a detailed, systematic critical strategy that he calls "schema criticism," which can be applied to literature and other discourses to maximize and extend their potential for promoting social justice. -- Publisher website.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9780292744370

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