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Acknowledging the influence of New Criticism on literary studies, Vernay notes that conceptualizing a literary text as an enclosed space does not take into account the different forces that have participated in the creation of the work. The influence of these forces on the text is often ignored, something that could be related to anxieties about imitation. But influence is not confined only to literary aspects. The text is also at the mercy of hidden editorial forces which go as far as impacting on the style, tone, and format of the book as object.
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Vernay, JF. (2016). Context Matters. In: The Seduction of Fiction. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39453-4_3
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