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This 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 Review

A bracing argument, well sustained
Laurence Coupe, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 18th October 2012

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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: 6/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719064555, 978-0719064555
      ISBN10: 0719064554

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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 Review

      A bracing argument, well sustained
      Laurence Coupe, Times Higher Educational Supplement, 18th October 2012

      -- .

      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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