Literature in Contexts

Informationen zum Autor Peter Barry is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Contextuality in context2. Contextuality contested3. Mutual contextuality: Coleridge's conversation poems4. Contextualising Hemans's shipwrecks5. Seeing the spot:Hopkins, Liverpool, and context6. Picturing the context: contemporary poetry and ekphrasis7. Beyond 'secret narrative': crime fiction verse narratives by women8. Just the facts: content is contextList of works consultedIndex

Product details

• Authors: Maron Ed Barry, Maron Ed. Barry, Peter Barry, Peter Photographer Barry
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2012
• EAN: 9780719064555
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6455-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary theory