Justice in young adult speculative fiction : a cognitive reading / by Marek C. Oziewicz.

Author/creator Oziewicz, Marek author.
Format Electronic
PublicationNew York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Copyright Date©2015
Description1 online resource (x, 257 pages).
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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SeriesChildren's literature and culture ; 33
Children's literature and culture ; 33. ^A1008050
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Toward Modern Justice Consciousness: An Idiosyncratic History of Justice with a Note on the Rise of Young People's Literature; 2 How We Know What We Know: Justice Scripts in Literary and Filmic Narratives; 3 The World Is Not Fair: Poetic Justice Scripts; 4 Find Them and Kill Them: Retributive Justice Scripts; 5 No Future without Forgiveness: Restorative Justice Scripts; 6 Humans Are Animals Too: Environmental Justice Scripts; 7 We All Have a Dream: Social Justice Scripts.
Abstract 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 indexab.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Oziewicz, Marek C. Justice in Young Adult Speculative Fiction : A Cognitive Reading. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015 9781138809437
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
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