The word ‘text’ is the root of linked terms such as ‘context’, ‘subtext’ and ‘intertextuality’. ‘Textile’ is also part of this word family, which may remind us of the interwoven links that tie the poems, plays and novels we read to the specific environments and milieux in which they were produced.
The contexts of a text comprise those aspects of the social, historical and cultural setting in which it was written that may have shaped and influenced it.
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