The strasbourg stop
pp. 9-27
in: Simone Galea, Adrián Grima (eds), The teacher, literature and the mediterranean, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
"Context is all", as the phrase that becomes a refrain in Margaret Atwood"s The Handmaid"s Tale has it. Let us by all means "look at the context", as our teachers of literature, at all levels, have always enjoined us to do: a tendency they share with politicians everywhere, who insist that "taking things in context" will help us appreciate their decisions better.
