
Social Texts and Context
Literature and Social Psychology
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-1-032-57517-9 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1984, Social Texts and Context illustrates the ways in which familiar psychological concepts - femininity, the environment, groups, the self - are constructed in discourse. Novels by Thomas Hardy, Barbara Cartland, Doris Lessing, C. P. Snow, Charles Dickens and Robert Musil are examined, and the theoretical approaches of Roland Barthes, Rom Harre, Jonathan Culler, Henri Tajfel, Irving Janis and Paul Willis are discussed. Development in literary theory - such as semiology and deconstruction and in theories of social action - such as ethogenics and discourse analysis - make it difficult to treat literary and psychological texts as a neutral medium of communication. Instead, texts should be seen in terms of their fundamental constructive role in the organization of social life. As the authors demonstrate, contemporary life in both its personal and professional spheres is hedged around by discourse, conversations, newspaper articles, novels, scientific reports. This book will be of interest to students of literature and psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-57517-9 (9781032575179)
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Literature and Social Psychology
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Literature and Social Psychology
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Jonathan Potter | Peter Stringer | Margaret Wetherell
Social Texts and Context
Literature and Social Psychology
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1st Edition
Routledge
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Jonathan Potter, Peter Stringer and Margaret Wetherell
Content
New Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Writing Gender 2. Character and Environment 3. Some Unsatisfactory Positions 4. From Action to Discourse 5. Dissecting Factual Texts 6. Victims of Realread 7. Elites and Stereotypes 8. The Discursive Self Notes Bibliography Author Index Subject Index