Texts and Contexts: Introducing Literature and Language Study

Product code D177 Author Adrian Beard ISBN 0415229871 Format Paperback Pages 165 Publisher Routledge Year of publication 2005   The idea of studying texts 'in context' has become a major new emphasis in contemporary literary studies. Through a series of units comprising texts, exercises and commentaries, this book explores the idea of contexts and the way they affect texts, concentrating upon: the writer's context the reader's context the text's context the language context the meaning context Students are encouraged to think about the contexts in which they and other readers interpret a text and the ways in which texts mean different things to people at different times. An ideal starting point for anyone new to contextualised reading - including AS/A2 students. For a review of this title see NATE website (www.nate.org.uk)   Price £16.20 Members' price £16.20