A Context Framework

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A Context Framework

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The idea of contexts explores ideas around the writing and reading of texts. Listed below are five broad strands of context that can be explored through a range of texts and ideas and with questions, which give you some idea of what is involved in each strand. As you work through them… you, as reader, will be asked how the answers to these questions affect the way you view the texts under discussion.

A context framework
The writer's context
1          What do we know about the writer's life, values, assumptions, gender, race, class, sexual orientation etc.?
2          What do we know about the values and assumptions prevalent
            in the culture in which the writer lived? How was the writer
            influenced by these values and to what extent did the writer
            challenge them?
3          What political/economic issues were important at the time?

The text's context
1          What is its publishing history? For example: are there different
            versions; is it read in translation; was it originally serialized; is
            it part of a larger text such as a newspaper or anthology?
2          What sources contributed to it?
3          What is the text's relationship to other texts; does it, for
            instance, echo the language of another text, the ideas of another
            text?
4          What is its history of performance and what audience and/or
            readers has it had over time?
5          What previous critical reviews has it received and how do they
            affect the way we view the text now?

The reader's context
1          What is your previous reading experience?
2          How do your values, assumptions, gender, race, class, age, sexual
            orientation, etc. affect the way you read the text?
3          How are your views shaped by the political and economic issues
            of your time?
4          How are your views shaped by the values and assumptions of the
            culture in which you live?

The readings context
1          How do different critical schools respond to this text?
2          How can different critical theories and methods be applied to
            the text?
3          How is the text ambiguous in its meanings?
4          What is left unsaid in the text?

The language context
1          What generic conventions does the text follow, and how does
            the reader recognize them?
2          How is the text's narrative organized?
3          How do various linguistic features affect the way we read the text?
4          In what ways can we approach the question 'How does this text
            work?'


All of the above questions form ways to approach the single question 'What does this text mean?'

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