1st Edition
Social Texts and Context Literature and Social Psychology
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Jonathan Potter, Peter Stringer and Margaret Wetherell
