A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander PopeThis 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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... Essay on Criticism and the Epistle to Arbuthnot * N An Essay on Criticism Pope figures both as artist and as critic . By I means of doing so within the genre of the verse essay and effecting an escape into the formal liberties of art ...
... Essay on Criticism and the Epistle to Arbuthnot * N An Essay on Criticism Pope figures both as artist and as critic . By I means of doing so within the genre of the verse essay and effecting an escape into the formal liberties of art ...
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... essay , and they argue that it makes sense to see Pope's Essay on Man as regularly challenging , even frustrating , such a mind [ which is capable of cultivated understanding ] , by offer- ing possibilities of comprehension ( at moments ...
... essay , and they argue that it makes sense to see Pope's Essay on Man as regularly challenging , even frustrating , such a mind [ which is capable of cultivated understanding ] , by offer- ing possibilities of comprehension ( at moments ...
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... Essay on Criticism ” ' , in Wallace Jackson and R. Paul Yoder ( eds ) , Critical Essays on Alexander Pope ( New York , G. K. Hall , 1993 ) , p . 106 . 8 John Mullan , Sentiment and Sociability : the language of feeling in the eighteenth ...
... Essay on Criticism ” ' , in Wallace Jackson and R. Paul Yoder ( eds ) , Critical Essays on Alexander Pope ( New York , G. K. Hall , 1993 ) , p . 106 . 8 John Mullan , Sentiment and Sociability : the language of feeling in the eighteenth ...
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Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady | 1 |
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Violence and representation in WindsorForest | 67 |
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