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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 80
Seite 109
_5_ Eloisa , the female philosopher E TLOISA to Abelard is exceptional for reasons both of subject matter and of presentation : it is the only one of Pope's major poems that is written from the first - person point of view and it is a ...
_5_ Eloisa , the female philosopher E TLOISA to Abelard is exceptional for reasons both of subject matter and of presentation : it is the only one of Pope's major poems that is written from the first - person point of view and it is a ...
Seite 112
The exceptional position which he gallantly grants her still shows his general hostility to female writing . And yet , his decision to engage in a poetic fiction in which a woman recounts her sorrows in the first - person - singular ...
The exceptional position which he gallantly grants her still shows his general hostility to female writing . And yet , his decision to engage in a poetic fiction in which a woman recounts her sorrows in the first - person - singular ...
Seite 130
42 Yet its positive influence was most likely an unintentional side - product and we have to remain aware that Pope's interest in female figures is not the same as a wish to promote female intellectual activity .
42 Yet its positive influence was most likely an unintentional side - product and we have to remain aware that Pope's interest in female figures is not the same as a wish to promote female intellectual activity .
Was andere dazu sagen - Rezension schreiben
Es wurden keine Rezensionen gefunden.
Inhalt
Womens situation in the earlymodern period | 39 |
3 | 66 |
4 | 83 |
Urheberrecht | |
5 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope Christa Knellwolf,Christa Knellwolf King Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abelard active analysis appears argues argument artistic aspects attack attempt attitude becomes Belinda body Cambridge central century character claim close complex concerning conclude contained contemporary context contradiction conventional creativity Criticism culture demonstrates describes detailed discussion Dunciad effect eighteenth eighteenth-century Eloisa Essay example existence experience expression fact female femininity figure force gender historical human idea imagination implies important instance intellectual interest interpretation John kind knowledge language Lock logical London look male meaning metaphor mind moral nature object observe origin Oxford particular passage person physical poem poem's poet poetry political Pope Pope's position possessing possibility presents produces question Rape readers reason recognise reference relation representation represented rhetorical role satire says sense sexual shows social society spirit structure suggests theory tion understanding University Press violence voice woman women writing