Social Texts and Context: Literature and Social Psychology

by Margaret Wetherell, Peter Stringer, Jonathan Potter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032575131
• ISBN13: 9781032575131
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 198 Pages