Quests of Difference : Reading Pope's Poems / G. Douglas Atkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deconstruction.

Verse satire, English--History and criticism.

Verse satire, English.

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744--Criticism and interpretation.

Pope, Alexander.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this eminently readable book, G. Douglas Atkins continues the efforts undertaken in Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading to open eighteenth-century texts to the insights of recent critical theory. Through close readings of most of Pope's major poems, Atkins demonstrates how the powerful theoretical movement known as deconstruction enriches, challenges, and significantly modifies our understanding of the work of the greatest poet of the eighteenth century. The first full-scale deconstructive study of Augustan poetry, Quests of Difference at once offers a fresh and compelling readi

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; One : Double Reading Pope; Two : Fair Art's ""Treach'rous Colours"" The Fate of ""Gen'rous Converse"" in An Essay on Criticism; Three : ""Some Strange Comfort"" Construction and Deconstruction in An Essay on Man; Four : Shooting at Flying Game Reading and the Quest of Truth in the Moral Essays; Five : Becoming Woman Writing, Self, and the Quest of Difference in the Imitations of Horace; Six : ''All Relation Scorn"" Duncery, Deconstruction, and The Dunciad; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 169-184.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813187860

0813187869

9780813161891

0813161894

OCLC:

557817970