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Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading

Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction: A Cognitive Reading

Hardcover

Series: Children's Literature and Culture

Literary CriticismHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1138809438
ISBN13: 9781138809437
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 21 2015
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book is the first to offer a justice-focused cognitive reading of modern YA speculative fiction in its narrative and filmic forms. It links the expansion of YA speculative fiction in the 20th century with the emergence of human and civil rights movements, with the communitarian revolution in conceptualizations of justice, and with spectacular advances in cognitive sciences as applied to the examination of narrative fiction. Oziewicz argues that complex ideas such as justice are processed by the human mind as cognitive scripts; that scripts, when narrated, take the form of multiply indexable stories; and that YA speculative fiction is currently the largest conceptual testing ground in the forging of justice consciousness for the 21st century world.

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