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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be the soul mate of the poet , with whom she has such an extraordinary platonic relationship . Biographical information explains that Pope repeatedly asked her to marry him and by 1735 he got used to the idea that she would never ...
be the soul mate of the poet , with whom she has such an extraordinary platonic relationship . Biographical information explains that Pope repeatedly asked her to marry him and by 1735 he got used to the idea that she would never ...
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a physical body - and I will now ask how Pope engaged in a quest for the self in his discussion of the poet's role in the poem . Since stylistic features are highly important in his poetry , I will keep in mind that the role of the poet ...
a physical body - and I will now ask how Pope engaged in a quest for the self in his discussion of the poet's role in the poem . Since stylistic features are highly important in his poetry , I will keep in mind that the role of the poet ...
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Six lines earlier on , the passage explicitly mentions Walsh as the ' you ' who figures as the ideal poet . It is interesting to note that the poet figures as someone who acts according to standards but also sets them .
Six lines earlier on , the passage explicitly mentions Walsh as the ' you ' who figures as the ideal poet . It is interesting to note that the poet figures as someone who acts according to standards but also sets them .
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Womens situation in the earlymodern period | 39 |
3 | 66 |
4 | 83 |
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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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