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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... narrative technique we need to point out that the representations of details have the flair of vividness precisely because they are couched in a particular world - view . Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock . Although its ...
... narrative technique we need to point out that the representations of details have the flair of vividness precisely because they are couched in a particular world - view . Pope's most famous poem is The Rape of the Lock . Although its ...
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... narrative pattern in which a woman loses a struggle and is forced to conform to the role of victim . Apart from the above , we get another textual hint as to the outcome of the narrative : the text says that she strayed ' Beyond the ...
... narrative pattern in which a woman loses a struggle and is forced to conform to the role of victim . Apart from the above , we get another textual hint as to the outcome of the narrative : the text says that she strayed ' Beyond the ...
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... narrative technique is complex and it is important to observe that it enables Eloisa to express her own subjectivity but that it also wrests it from her ; it posits her as the mere object – and not the subject – of the narrative while ...
... narrative technique is complex and it is important to observe that it enables Eloisa to express her own subjectivity but that it also wrests it from her ; it posits her as the mere object – and not the subject – of the narrative while ...
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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