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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... Dulness with Obscenity must prove As Shameful sure as Impotence in Love . ( 530–533 ) The close vicinity of art and obscenity is focused on here : not only is knowledge to some extent of a sexual nature , but it is also interested in ...
... Dulness with Obscenity must prove As Shameful sure as Impotence in Love . ( 530–533 ) The close vicinity of art and obscenity is focused on here : not only is knowledge to some extent of a sexual nature , but it is also interested in ...
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... Dulness ' forthwith reveals herself to him [ Dunce ] , transports him to her Temple , unfolds her Arts , and ... Dulness can be found in Swift's figure Criticism in The Battle of the Books , who intervenes in favour of the moderns ...
... Dulness ' forthwith reveals herself to him [ Dunce ] , transports him to her Temple , unfolds her Arts , and ... Dulness can be found in Swift's figure Criticism in The Battle of the Books , who intervenes in favour of the moderns ...
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Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope Christa Knellwolf King. to capture Dulness's bad force , the more he asserts her power . Since Dulness personifies a female archetype , it is important to observe that the idea of ...
Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope Christa Knellwolf King. to capture Dulness's bad force , the more he asserts her power . Since Dulness personifies a female archetype , it is important to observe that the idea of ...
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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