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This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, which has remained for the most part stubbornly un-theorised and un-examined. The book aims to set a distinction between âdeepâ and âbroadâ contexts, arguing that we need to counter the prevalence of the latter if literary studies is to avoid becoming a minor branch of history. -- .

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Contextuality in context
2. Contextuality contested
3. Mutual contextuality: Coleridge’s conversation poems
4. Contextualising Hemans’s shipwrecks
5. Seeing the spot:Hopkins, Liverpool, and context
6. Picturing the context: contemporary poetry and ekphrasis
7. Beyond ‘secret narrative’: crime fiction verse narratives by women
8. Just the facts: content is context
List of works consulted
Index

Literature in Contexts

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2007
      ISBN13: 9780719064548, 978-0719064548
      ISBN10: 719064546

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, which has remained for the most part stubbornly un-theorised and un-examined. The book aims to set a distinction between âdeepâ and âbroadâ contexts, arguing that we need to counter the prevalence of the latter if literary studies is to avoid becoming a minor branch of history. -- .

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Contextuality in context
      2. Contextuality contested
      3. Mutual contextuality: Coleridge’s conversation poems
      4. Contextualising Hemans’s shipwrecks
      5. Seeing the spot:Hopkins, Liverpool, and context
      6. Picturing the context: contemporary poetry and ekphrasis
      7. Beyond ‘secret narrative’: crime fiction verse narratives by women
      8. Just the facts: content is context
      List of works consulted
      Index

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