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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... complex passages with those which are ideologically irritating we realise , only too often , that they are identical . What is needed , therefore , is a detailed study of how the poetry renders contemporary opinions . Since attitudes ...
... complex passages with those which are ideologically irritating we realise , only too often , that they are identical . What is needed , therefore , is a detailed study of how the poetry renders contemporary opinions . Since attitudes ...
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... complex and contradic- tory views prevalent in his contemporary society . Notes 1 Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own ( London , Penguin , 1945 ) , p . 32 . 2 William Empson , The Structure of Complex Words ( London , Hogarth Press ...
... complex and contradic- tory views prevalent in his contemporary society . Notes 1 Virginia Woolf , A Room of One's Own ( London , Penguin , 1945 ) , p . 32 . 2 William Empson , The Structure of Complex Words ( London , Hogarth Press ...
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... complex and go beyond a discomfort with the claims of empiricism . What Bogel calls insubstantiality is a genuine aspect of the poem but it refers to a psychological crisis in the context of recognising the unreliability of sensory ...
... complex and go beyond a discomfort with the claims of empiricism . What Bogel calls insubstantiality is a genuine aspect of the poem but it refers to a psychological crisis in the context of recognising the unreliability of sensory ...
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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