Language Text and Context

<p>First published in 1992 this wide-ranging collection of essays focuses on the principle of contextualisation as it applies to the interpretation description theorising and reading of literary and non-literary texts. The collection aims to reveal the interdependencies between theory analysis text and context by challenging the myth that stylistics entails a fundamental separation of text from context linguistic description from descriptive interpretation or language from situation. The essays cover a historically diverse set of texts from Puttenham to Colemanballs and a number of language-sensitive topics such as post-modernism irony newspaper representations gender and narrative.</p>