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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... fact , serve to keep conven- tional views in place . And yet , we may observe that Pope plays with the sequence of the female and male attributes . Even though it appears to be easy to identify the qualities typical of each sex , the fact ...
... fact , serve to keep conven- tional views in place . And yet , we may observe that Pope plays with the sequence of the female and male attributes . Even though it appears to be easy to identify the qualities typical of each sex , the fact ...
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... fact that the point of view is fundamentally unstable . Although the poem presents itself as being a woman's expression of grief , it renders a man's fantasies of sexuality , and the ironic undertones demonstrate that the language ...
... fact that the point of view is fundamentally unstable . Although the poem presents itself as being a woman's expression of grief , it renders a man's fantasies of sexuality , and the ironic undertones demonstrate that the language ...
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... fact that an altogether familiar scene is described in unfamiliar terms . A clue towards unpacking the metaphorical potential of ' [ she ] adores ' in front of the dressing - table mirror is that adoration is an expression of the eyes ...
... fact that an altogether familiar scene is described in unfamiliar terms . A clue towards unpacking the metaphorical potential of ' [ she ] adores ' in front of the dressing - table mirror is that adoration is an expression of the eyes ...
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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