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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Page 100
... demonstrates how uncritically Pope adopted certain notions as to natural behaviour between men and women . Although he kept searching for the essence which was to be found under impenetrable layers of rhetoric , he was frequently only ...
... demonstrates how uncritically Pope adopted certain notions as to natural behaviour between men and women . Although he kept searching for the essence which was to be found under impenetrable layers of rhetoric , he was frequently only ...
Page 106
... demonstrates Pope's ambivalent understanding of himself as possessing a mind that does not conform to the generally acknowledged definition of sanity . While the poem demonstrates an oscillation between attraction and repulsion , it ...
... demonstrates Pope's ambivalent understanding of himself as possessing a mind that does not conform to the generally acknowledged definition of sanity . While the poem demonstrates an oscillation between attraction and repulsion , it ...
Page 192
... demonstrates that it is impossible to decide how the scene is to be imagined . The many examples in which language describes air as an instance of nothingness illustrate how language originates out of nothing and talks – or appears to ...
... demonstrates that it is impossible to decide how the scene is to be imagined . The many examples in which language describes air as an instance of nothingness illustrate how language originates out of nothing and talks – or appears to ...
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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