Description
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, and it seeks out in a series of contextualising experiments contexts which are text-specific, or author-specific, or literary rather than historical, putting forward a distinction between deep' and broad' contexts. -- .
Trade ReviewA bracing argument, well sustained
Laurence Coupe, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 18th October 2012
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
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