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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... female philosopher LOISA to Abelard is exceptional for reasons both of subject matter and of presentation : it is the only one of Pope's major poems that is written from the first - person point of view and it is a woman's narrative ...
... female philosopher LOISA to Abelard is exceptional for reasons both of subject matter and of presentation : it is the only one of Pope's major poems that is written from the first - person point of view and it is a woman's narrative ...
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... female authorship , by looking upon female genius as a male quality that occasionally found its way into a female body . For him , knowledge is gendered and reserved for the male sex , but he can envisage the experiment of asking what ...
... female authorship , by looking upon female genius as a male quality that occasionally found its way into a female body . For him , knowledge is gendered and reserved for the male sex , but he can envisage the experiment of asking what ...
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... female figures is not the same as a wish to promote female intellectual activity . For this reason it is much more important to observe in what sense Pope's fiction of Eloisa is not quite female . This perspective makes the poem ...
... female figures is not the same as a wish to promote female intellectual activity . For this reason it is much more important to observe in what sense Pope's fiction of Eloisa is not quite female . This perspective makes the poem ...
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Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady | 1 |
2 | 36 |
Violence and representation in WindsorForest | 67 |
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