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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... possible without the help and support of many friends and colleagues at the Universities of Zurich and Cardiff and my supervisor , Christopher Norris , whom I want to thank not only for his academic support but also for being a friend ...
... possible without the help and support of many friends and colleagues at the Universities of Zurich and Cardiff and my supervisor , Christopher Norris , whom I want to thank not only for his academic support but also for being a friend ...
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... possible to escape from the constraints of contra- diction , or to speak from outside of ideology , I claim that it is still possible to produce a critique of the contradictory assumptions produced by ideology . To take up Empson's ...
... possible to escape from the constraints of contra- diction , or to speak from outside of ideology , I claim that it is still possible to produce a critique of the contradictory assumptions produced by ideology . To take up Empson's ...
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... possible he eliminated them in the 1742 version , already quoted , so that it is not possible to see these two figures as standing for human presences . This passage about the origin of music may be seen in relation to Romantic poems ...
... possible he eliminated them in the 1742 version , already quoted , so that it is not possible to see these two figures as standing for human presences . This passage about the origin of music may be seen in relation to Romantic poems ...
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Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady | 1 |
2 | 36 |
Violence and representation in WindsorForest | 67 |
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