Feminists, like New Historicists, were interested in contextualizing Shakespeare's writings rather than subjecting them to ahistorical formalist analysis.
"I am grateful that, being as old as I am" — she mentioned her age twice in the course of a five-minute conversation — "I have developed an interesting way to deal with it that I didn't know I had in me, which is contextualizing what is said, not reading either the puffy things which would give me an oversized head or the things which would give me a shrivelled heart".
The first attempts at coping were about contextualizing: getting this far was more than any Kansas fan could have rightfully hoped for at the beginning of the season, or even a month ago.
For children, "Life Story" is one of the first works of art or science that will attempt to explain natural history, contextualizing the dinosaurs, those megastars of kid-dom, in time and place among the stars and on the planet, and it does so with a humanizing artistic realism; the final section, fittingly and comfortingly, zooms in on life as we recognize it.
Writers have to resist contextualizing literature only in terms of contemporary standards, of course — so I wasn't exactly exempt from this situation.
This historical lineup, presented under the title "Prelude and Revolt," is exactly what Eilber means by contextualizing.
He said that Kmiec seems to have adopted the liberal-Catholic construct of "a consistent ethic of life," contextualizing abortion in a spectrum of other Catholic issues.
Laura Poitras pads the story of her encounter with Edward Snowden with peripheral contextualizing in lieu of filling out specifics about her travels and Snowden's.
While the show could benefit from more historical material and fewer didactic mockups — a third of the space is taken up with replicas of holding cells on San Francisco's notorious Angel Island — it succeeds in contextualizing waves of exchange and exodus, and in expanding the story of Chinese immigration.
As a result, the magazine is constantly re-contextualizing the way in which we think about (and see) soccer.
But, more and more, we see artists trying to contend with images that already exist, either in archives or on the Internet — taking those images and transforming them in some way, or re-contextualizing or re-staging them.
