Beard Adrian. Texts and Contexts. Introducing Literature and Language Study

Routledge, 2001. — 177 pages.The idea of studying texts 'in context' has become a major new emphasis in contemporary literary studies. 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
Through a series of units comprising texts, exercises and commentaries, Adrian Beard sets out a framework for studying texts and their contexts. He encourages students to think about the contexts in which they and other readers interpret a text, exploring the way in which texts mean different things to different people at different times.
This is the ideal starting point for anyone new to contextualised reading.