A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander PopeThis book offers a stimulating critique of the views concerning gender and gender roles expressed or implied in Pope’s poetry. Christa 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 detailed 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. An attentive close-reading of the poetry reveals Pope's conflicting attitudes towards women and explains them as a product of his difficulties with a society that was experiencing rapid political and cultural change. His contradictory views of femininity are examined in contrast to his self-appointed role as an artist who exercised the prerogative of criticizing the taste of contemporary readers. Knellwolf shows him to be torn between mourning the loss of an old order and fighting for a place in the new social hierarchy. She identifies this conflict with contemporary struggles over the definition of identity and gender, and thus makes a strong case for the reappraisal of Pope’s poetry in the context of gender politics. |
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The terms ' contradiction ' and ' paradox ' are structured analogously and are largely synonymous : both of them contain a prefix expressing opposition to a standard of what is generally said and expected to hold true .
The terms ' contradiction ' and ' paradox ' are structured analogously and are largely synonymous : both of them contain a prefix expressing opposition to a standard of what is generally said and expected to hold true .
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... and despair – “ If you search for passion ” , said Byron , " where is it to be found stronger than [ here ) ? " - but it is " natural " passion'.31 The Romantic emphasis on the poem's expression of passion detracts from the poem's ...
... and despair – “ If you search for passion ” , said Byron , " where is it to be found stronger than [ here ) ? " - but it is " natural " passion'.31 The Romantic emphasis on the poem's expression of passion detracts from the poem's ...
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Within the structure of insinuations , the logic of the passage depends on the material experience of her body , and Ariel's reading of that says that it is not possible that a woman ever refuses to yield to a man's expression of desire ...
Within the structure of insinuations , the logic of the passage depends on the material experience of her body , and Ariel's reading of that says that it is not possible that a woman ever refuses to yield to a man's expression of desire ...
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Womens situation in the earlymodern period | 39 |
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A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope Christa Knellwolf,Christa Knellwolf King Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
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