Politeness and Poetry in the Age of PopeFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989 - 166 Seiten Interest in politeness in the eighteenth century is shown to reflect anxiety about social change and indicate a search for guidelines in a newly commercialized society. Evident is the dilemma of poets such as Parnell, Prior, Swift, Gay, and Pope. |
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... become obvious . Yet , precisely because the system is ideological and does not have to be believed literally in all ... becomes the focus for the struggles and then the accommodations between an older aristocracy and a newer elite of ...
... become obvious . Yet , precisely because the system is ideological and does not have to be believed literally in all ... becomes the focus for the struggles and then the accommodations between an older aristocracy and a newer elite of ...
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... become a polite poet in this regard . It becomes clear that even the very verbal and metric choices felt to con- stitute the process of polishing Donne cannot fail to be ideolog- ical choices too . A full study would require a whole ...
... become a polite poet in this regard . It becomes clear that even the very verbal and metric choices felt to con- stitute the process of polishing Donne cannot fail to be ideolog- ical choices too . A full study would require a whole ...
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... become more and more paradoxical and inverted . He has not been able to freeze the social developments of his time and impose an ancient morality and a preconceived class arma- ture upon capitalism . His authority has become divorced ...
... become more and more paradoxical and inverted . He has not been able to freeze the social developments of his time and impose an ancient morality and a preconceived class arma- ture upon capitalism . His authority has become divorced ...
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Preface | 7 |
Politics the Poet | 30 |
Politeness | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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