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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... stereotypes which , in 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 ...
... stereotypes which , in 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 ...
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... stereotypical views about femininity.33 Pope elaborates on the image of the butterfly and continues to ... stereotypes of femininity . Although he implicitly argues that this kind of female presence is subversive and unreal ...
... stereotypical views about femininity.33 Pope elaborates on the image of the butterfly and continues to ... stereotypes of femininity . Although he implicitly argues that this kind of female presence is subversive and unreal ...
Page 244
... stereotypes 18 , 24-5 , 31-2 , 39 , 41–2 , 134 , 151 , 197 stock characters 135-7 Straub , Kristina 32-3 , 213 Styan , J. L. 59 , 66 subjection 42 subjectivity 56 substance 151-5 , 176 suicide 114 , 132 , 230 Swift , Jonathan 36 , 98 ...
... stereotypes 18 , 24-5 , 31-2 , 39 , 41–2 , 134 , 151 , 197 stock characters 135-7 Straub , Kristina 32-3 , 213 Styan , J. L. 59 , 66 subjection 42 subjectivity 56 substance 151-5 , 176 suicide 114 , 132 , 230 Swift , Jonathan 36 , 98 ...
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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