Social context: production and reception

This are the variables affecting our relations with others, like religion, gender, age, group, race, nationality, etc.

Now, in literature we have two types of contexts: The context of production and the context of reception.

The context of production is the context (year, events, etc) when the novel was produced by the author.
The context of reception is the context (year, events, etc) when the novel is read by someone.

Both are important things to consider. For example we couldn`t understand TKM being refered as a text of 2012, but we can as a text refering to the authors events in 1930