What is context?

Context can include the general social, historical and cultural conditions in which a text is responded to and created (the context of culture) or the specific features of its immediate environment (context of situation).

Why is context important?

• used in the Introduction of your essays

• provides the background or backstory

• provides social, political, and historical events of importance

What is intertextuality?

Intertextuality primarily refers to the realationship or connection between two texts. Intertextual can also be based on text that includes allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody. Examples of intertextuality are an author's borrowing and transforming a prior text, and a reader's referencing of one text in reading another.

Why is intertextuality important?

Your IO asks you to make intertextual connections: to form connections between two texts that contain a global issue. In this poetry study, we will look at the photography of David Guttenfelder to make intertextual connections.