Textual Context and Literary Criticism : A Case Study Based on a Letter from Shoghi Effendi 

<br/><br/> Application of literary criticism to a passage by Shoghi Effendi regarding selecting a spot as the standard for measuring the day in the Bahá'í calendar: "As to whcih spot should be regarded as the standard, this is a matter which the Universal House of Justice will have to decide." (letter written on behalf of the Guardian, 15 May 1940).