Resemblance and disgrace : Alexander Pope and the deformation of culture
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Resemblance and disgrace : Alexander Pope and the deformation of culture
Harvard University Press, 1996
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Between the figure of Alexander Pope, a hunchback standing barely 4 feet 6 inches tall, and the form of his poetry is an undeniable contradiction. Undeniable but not necessarily unfortunate, this contradiction of deformity and form may have been Pope's ultimate couplet, Helen Deutsch suggests, the paradox from which his contemporary cultural authority sprang. By restoring the poet's image to view against the cultural background that branded it as monstrous, Deutsch recasts Pope's literary career, from his translations of Homer to his imitations of Horace, as itself a form of monstrous embodiment - a stamping of his own, personal image on fragments of the cultural past. In "Resemblance and Disgrace" deformity appears as a poetics jointly constructed by the author and his audience, and Pope as an instrumental figure in the history of authorship whose personal vision and unique visibility have influenced succeeding images of cultural authority. Like the miniatures of which Pope was so fond, the book is at once particular in its focus and wide-ranging in its conceptual scope.
While drawing on recent feminist, historicist and materialist criticism of Pope, as well as current theoretical work on the body, it also attends closely to the local ambiguities of the poet's texts and cultural milieu, details often lost to critical view. The result is a broadened reading of Pope, and of our understanding of the processes of authorship. By focusing on the process by which ideas of authority and authenticity took shape at specific moments in Pope's career, "Resemblance and Disgrace" calls into question distinctions between theoretical abstractions and material details, between literary originality and critical derivation, following Pope's own example of rewriting intellectual boundaries as creative opportunities.
目次
Introduction 1. The "Truest Copies" of a "Mean Original" 2. The Rape of the Lock as Miniature Epic 3. Twickenham and the Landscape of True Character 4. Horace and the Art of Self-Collection 5. Disfigured Truth and the Proper Name Abbreviations Notes Index
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