A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander PopeManchester University Press, 1998 - 245 pages This text offers a critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles expressed or implied in Pope's poetry. Knellwolf approaches Pope's stylistic complexity revealing it as an effect of his engagement with a historical situation in which the position of women was one of the most prominent sources of ideological conflict. She provides a discussion of Pope's poetic language and relates it to the wider context of publication in which male writers defended the masculine privilege of literary authorship against intellectual women. |
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... chapters concerned with the acoustic and the visual senses , respectively , discuss this poem . In the chapter that deals with the acoustic considerations , I will investigate how Pope understands the poem as text . I will ask how it ...
... chapters concerned with the acoustic and the visual senses , respectively , discuss this poem . In the chapter that deals with the acoustic considerations , I will investigate how Pope understands the poem as text . I will ask how it ...
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... chapter I will first examine the debate on women's rights surrounding the translation of Juvenal's blatantly misogynous ' Sixth Satire ' . In the next place I will analyse the statements concerning femininity made in the context of ...
... chapter I will first examine the debate on women's rights surrounding the translation of Juvenal's blatantly misogynous ' Sixth Satire ' . In the next place I will analyse the statements concerning femininity made in the context of ...
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... chapter . Since it is one of the key passages concerning the tensions between female body and mind - or between being and appearance in general - I want to return to the description of the spirits ' transubstantiation once again : As ...
... chapter . Since it is one of the key passages concerning the tensions between female body and mind - or between being and appearance in general - I want to return to the description of the spirits ' transubstantiation once again : As ...
Contents
Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady | 10 |
Contradiction the double standard and its critics | 39 |
Violence and representation in WindsorForest | 67 |
Copyright | |
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