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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... living and dynamically structured universe , illuminates Pope's technique of reasoning . These considerations show that a reading which emphasises the disjointedness of the syntheses is fully in keeping with Pope's notion of the nature ...
... living and dynamically structured universe , illuminates Pope's technique of reasoning . These considerations show that a reading which emphasises the disjointedness of the syntheses is fully in keeping with Pope's notion of the nature ...
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... living Teapots stand , one Arm held out , One bent ; the Handle this , and that the Spout : A Pipkin there like Homer's Tripod walks ; Here sighs a Jar , and there a Goose - pye talks ; Men prove with Child , as pow'rful Fancy works ...
... living Teapots stand , one Arm held out , One bent ; the Handle this , and that the Spout : A Pipkin there like Homer's Tripod walks ; Here sighs a Jar , and there a Goose - pye talks ; Men prove with Child , as pow'rful Fancy works ...
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... ( living ) body and becomes an object , and this is what the Baron wants Belinda to become . To return to the Baron's prayer : the absence of value and substance creates the void in which the sound waves of his request meet the ' Powers ...
... ( living ) body and becomes an object , and this is what the Baron wants Belinda to become . To return to the Baron's prayer : the absence of value and substance creates the void in which the sound waves of his request meet the ' Powers ...
Contents
Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady | 1 |
2 | 36 |
Violence and representation in WindsorForest | 67 |
Copyright | |
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