#Writing contexts free#
Included in the second category (ethics) are all questions of moralityĪnd behavior, pleasure and pain, fate and free will, kindness and cruelty, and anything else concerning human actions. Questions you can imagine by replacing the word universe with somethingĮlse (humanity, life, death, thought, love, God, nature, time, and so on). Or interested and whether benign, malefic, or indifferent, and any other If it had a creator and, if so, whether he or she or it is still involved Meaning, if it ever didnt exist or if it will ever stop existing, (metaphysics) are secondary questions about whether it has a purpose or Proper response to the universe?” Included in the first category Is the nature of the universe? and What is the individuals That have captivated humanitys attention ever since we became prosperousĮnough to have the time and energy to think about them: What Her, and critical works that give close attention to the authorsĬontemporary authors consciously or subconsciously address the same questions Life and what influence did that life have on it? While exploringīiographical context, useful sources include biographies of the author,Īutobiographies or memoirs by the author or by people who knew him or On in the authors life? What personal circumstances, or specificĮvent, either at the time of composition or in the past, motivated theĪuthor to write it? In short, how does this work fit into the authors
The circumstances under which a work was written. It come at the beginning of his or her career, in the middle, or at theĮnd? Had that career so far been successful or not? In someĬases, one book represents the entirety of the career. AuthorialĬontext connects a particular work to the authors life. The author is just reporting what he or she has witnessed. That the events or experiences he or she describes actually happened and That does not mean, however, that the author identifies with the mainĬharacter or even the narrator in a novel or the speaker in a poem, or Too), but their lives always influence their work in some way. To say that authors writeįrom their own experiences is an exaggeration (imagination is important,
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