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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... poet , with whom she has such an extraordinary platonic relationship . Biographical information explains that Pope repeatedly asked her to marry him and by 1735 he got used to the idea that she would never consent . The poem could , on ...
... poet , with whom she has such an extraordinary platonic relationship . Biographical information explains that Pope repeatedly asked her to marry him and by 1735 he got used to the idea that she would never consent . The poem could , on ...
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... poet's role in the poem . Since stylistic features are highly important in his poetry , I will keep in mind that the role of the poet is , of course , related to questions of poetic language : where the language is at its strongest , the ...
... poet's role in the poem . Since stylistic features are highly important in his poetry , I will keep in mind that the role of the poet is , of course , related to questions of poetic language : where the language is at its strongest , the ...
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... poet . It is interesting to note that the poet figures as someone who acts according to standards but also sets them . The following couplet illustrates that , while he cried out against all violations of the rules of poetics , Pope ...
... poet . It is interesting to note that the poet figures as someone who acts according to standards but also sets them . The following couplet illustrates that , while he cried out against all violations of the rules of poetics , Pope ...
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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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