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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... shows , they are bought at the expense of a violation . Furthermore , if we do not deliberately close our eyes to violence , the text shows this dependence openly and indeed insists on it . In doing so it subverts its own complicity ...
... shows , they are bought at the expense of a violation . Furthermore , if we do not deliberately close our eyes to violence , the text shows this dependence openly and indeed insists on it . In doing so it subverts its own complicity ...
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... shows Eloisa as an appealing figure and , unlike the historical Abelard , he could envisage a female logician . Her exercises in philosophical argument are , however , mainly reduced to an expression of her emotions and Pope does not show ...
... shows Eloisa as an appealing figure and , unlike the historical Abelard , he could envisage a female logician . Her exercises in philosophical argument are , however , mainly reduced to an expression of her emotions and Pope does not show ...
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... shows that even her own gaze has been determined by external factors and that even her capacity of vision and perception is dictated by her background . My analysis of how Belinda is made up in cosmetic as well as in rhetorical terms ...
... shows that even her own gaze has been determined by external factors and that even her capacity of vision and perception is dictated by her background . My analysis of how Belinda is made up in cosmetic as well as in rhetorical terms ...
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Contradiction and the Epistle to a Lady | 1 |
2 | 36 |
Violence and representation in WindsorForest | 67 |
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