English Literature A-Level
Relevant contextual application
What Relevant contextual application means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Relevant contextual application
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Selecting text-specific contexts that genuinely illuminate the text rather than generic period detail, so that context changes how a specific detail is read.
Topics that use Relevant contextual application
- Subject content – A-level (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Authorial choice and textual effects
- Authorial shaping of meaning
- Comparative connections
- Context of production
- Convention, adaptation and subversion
- Critical evaluation and argument
- Form, structure and language
- Genre as a dynamic system of conventions
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