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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And yet , we may observe that Pope plays with the sequence of the female and male attributes . Even though it appears to be easy to identify the qualities typical of each sex , the fact that this couplet juggles with the stereotypical ...
And yet , we may observe that Pope plays with the sequence of the female and male attributes . Even though it appears to be easy to identify the qualities typical of each sex , the fact that this couplet juggles with the stereotypical ...
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... her under the type of the splenetic woman , and does so even when he claims to be praising her.13 He does not compare her poetic abilities to that of male writers and adamantly insists on the validity of his own ( male ) judgement .
... her under the type of the splenetic woman , and does so even when he claims to be praising her.13 He does not compare her poetic abilities to that of male writers and adamantly insists on the validity of his own ( male ) judgement .
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Not only is the body equated with the feminine and the spirit with the masculine , but the poem shows that a male author can only visualise an escape route out of the woman's plight by way of a change into the male sex .
Not only is the body equated with the feminine and the spirit with the masculine , but the poem shows that a male author can only visualise an escape route out of the woman's plight by way of a change into the male sex .
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Womens situation in the earlymodern period | 39 |
3 | 66 |
4 | 83 |
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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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| Titel | A Contradiction Still: Representations of Women in the Poetry of Alexander Pope |
| Autoren | Christa Knellwolf, Christa Knellwolf King |
| Ausgabe | illustriert |
| Verlag | Manchester University Press, 1998 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 12. März 2008 |
| ISBN | 0719053331, 9780719053337 |
| Länge | 245 Seiten |
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