The rape of the text: reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man
First published in 1733-1734, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope's best-known philosophical poem was highly praised by many of Pope's European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the univers...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Tuscaloosa u.a.
Univ. of Alabama Press
1993
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Zusammenfassung: | First published in 1733-1734, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope's best-known philosophical poem was highly praised by many of Pope's European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the universe, man as an individual, man in society, and man in pursuit of happiness. Voltaire called An Essay on Man "the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem" in the English language, but what was formerly regarded as the pinnacle of 18th-century poetry now languishes largely unread or misread as a quaint period piece. Harold Bloom recently described the Essay as a "poetic disaster" of "absurd theodicy." The Rape of the Text deconstructs the history of criticism of An Essay on Man to account for and to reverse over two hundred years of deformation and trivialization of Pope's text by literary critics, philosophers, and historians of ideas After showing why the commonplaces about the Essay inscribed in Pope scholarship are suspect because of the mutual and abiding hostility of logocentric and aesthetic traditions of misreading, Solomon rebuts the objections made to Pope's "philosophy" in a series of chapters demonstrating more appropriate strategies for interpreting Pope's persona, tone, methodology, argument, and figurality. Cumulatively, the chapters characterize a discourse world of "middle-state" Academic Skepticism that Pope shared with his admirers. While the characterization of Pope's discourse world in The Rape of the Text has implications for Pope and for 18th-century scholarship beyond the Essay on Man, it also has implications for reading all philosophical poetry Solomon contends that criticism of the Essay on Man is only an extreme example of the deformation that occurs routinely when literary critics or philosophers interpret philosophical poetry, and in the final chapter he calls for a "naturalization" of philosophical poetry as a genre as the necessary remedy to our present willful blindness |
| Beschreibung: | 245 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 081730696X |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV009017371 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 19940304 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 940303s1993 a||| |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 081730696X |9 0-8173-0696-X | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)26854001 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV009017371 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rakddb | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-12 |a DE-355 |a DE-703 |a DE-19 |a DE-83 |a DE-188 | ||
| 050 | 0 | |a PR3627 | |
| 082 | 0 | |a 821/.5 |2 20 | |
| 084 | |a HK 2695 |0 (DE-625)50295:11852 |2 rvk | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a Solomon, Harry M. |e Verfasser |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a The rape of the text |b reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man |c Harry M. Solomon |
| 264 | 1 | |a Tuscaloosa u.a. |b Univ. of Alabama Press |c 1993 | |
| 300 | |a 245 S. |b Ill. | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | 3 | |a First published in 1733-1734, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope's best-known philosophical poem was highly praised by many of Pope's European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the universe, man as an individual, man in society, and man in pursuit of happiness. Voltaire called An Essay on Man "the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem" in the English language, but what was formerly regarded as the pinnacle of 18th-century poetry now languishes largely unread or misread as a quaint period piece. Harold Bloom recently described the Essay as a "poetic disaster" of "absurd theodicy." The Rape of the Text deconstructs the history of criticism of An Essay on Man to account for and to reverse over two hundred years of deformation and trivialization of Pope's text by literary critics, philosophers, and historians of ideas | |
| 520 | 3 | |a After showing why the commonplaces about the Essay inscribed in Pope scholarship are suspect because of the mutual and abiding hostility of logocentric and aesthetic traditions of misreading, Solomon rebuts the objections made to Pope's "philosophy" in a series of chapters demonstrating more appropriate strategies for interpreting Pope's persona, tone, methodology, argument, and figurality. Cumulatively, the chapters characterize a discourse world of "middle-state" Academic Skepticism that Pope shared with his admirers. While the characterization of Pope's discourse world in The Rape of the Text has implications for Pope and for 18th-century scholarship beyond the Essay on Man, it also has implications for reading all philosophical poetry | |
| 520 | 3 | |a Solomon contends that criticism of the Essay on Man is only an extreme example of the deformation that occurs routinely when literary critics or philosophers interpret philosophical poetry, and in the final chapter he calls for a "naturalization" of philosophical poetry as a genre as the necessary remedy to our present willful blindness | |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | |a Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> |t Essay on man |
| 600 | 1 | 4 | |a Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> |x Criticism and interpretation |x History |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Pope, Alexander |d 1688-1744 |t An essay on man |0 (DE-588)4130169-9 |2 gnd |9 rswk-swf |
| 648 | 4 | |a Geschichte 1700-1800 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a An essay on man (Pope) |2 gtt | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Geschichte | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Human beings in literature | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Philosophy in literature | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Philosophy, English |y 18th century | |
| 689 | 0 | 0 | |a Pope, Alexander |d 1688-1744 |t An essay on man |0 (DE-588)4130169-9 |D u |
| 689 | 0 | |5 DE-604 | |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |m HEBIS Datenaustausch |q application/pdf |u http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=005962594&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |3 Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-005962594 | ||
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1804123367009157120 |
|---|---|
| adam_text | The Rape of the Text
Reading and Misreading
Pope s Essay on Man
Harry M Solomon
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa amp; London
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: A Poetic Disaster i
i Trivializing An Essay on Man 6
2 Disseminating Theodicy 32
3 The Self as Aporia 57
4 Optimism and Pessimism 89
5 Academic Discourse 114
6 Paradox Against the Orthodox 146
Conclusion: Naturalizing Philosophical Poetry 183
Notes 191
Bibliography 219
Index 237
|
| any_adam_object | 1 |
| author | Solomon, Harry M. |
| author_facet | Solomon, Harry M. |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Solomon, Harry M. |
| author_variant | h m s hm hms |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV009017371 |
| callnumber-first | P - Language and Literature |
| callnumber-label | PR3627 |
| callnumber-raw | PR3627 |
| callnumber-search | PR3627 |
| callnumber-sort | PR 43627 |
| callnumber-subject | PR - English Literature |
| classification_rvk | HK 2695 |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)26854001 (DE-599)BVBBV009017371 |
| dewey-full | 821/.5 |
| dewey-hundreds | 800 - Literature (Belles-lettres) and rhetoric |
| dewey-ones | 821 - English poetry |
| dewey-raw | 821/.5 |
| dewey-search | 821/.5 |
| dewey-sort | 3821 15 |
| dewey-tens | 820 - English & Old English literatures |
| discipline | Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| era | Geschichte 1700-1800 |
| era_facet | Geschichte 1700-1800 |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>03801nam a2200469 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV009017371</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">19940304 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">940303s1993 a||| |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">081730696X</subfield><subfield code="9">0-8173-0696-X</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)26854001</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV009017371</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakddb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-12</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-355</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-703</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-19</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-83</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-188</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">PR3627</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">821/.5</subfield><subfield code="2">20</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="084" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">HK 2695</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-625)50295:11852</subfield><subfield code="2">rvk</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Solomon, Harry M.</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">The rape of the text</subfield><subfield code="b">reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man</subfield><subfield code="c">Harry M. Solomon</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Tuscaloosa u.a.</subfield><subfield code="b">Univ. of Alabama Press</subfield><subfield code="c">1993</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">245 S.</subfield><subfield code="b">Ill.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">First published in 1733-1734, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope's best-known philosophical poem was highly praised by many of Pope's European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the universe, man as an individual, man in society, and man in pursuit of happiness. Voltaire called An Essay on Man "the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem" in the English language, but what was formerly regarded as the pinnacle of 18th-century poetry now languishes largely unread or misread as a quaint period piece. Harold Bloom recently described the Essay as a "poetic disaster" of "absurd theodicy." The Rape of the Text deconstructs the history of criticism of An Essay on Man to account for and to reverse over two hundred years of deformation and trivialization of Pope's text by literary critics, philosophers, and historians of ideas</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">After showing why the commonplaces about the Essay inscribed in Pope scholarship are suspect because of the mutual and abiding hostility of logocentric and aesthetic traditions of misreading, Solomon rebuts the objections made to Pope's "philosophy" in a series of chapters demonstrating more appropriate strategies for interpreting Pope's persona, tone, methodology, argument, and figurality. Cumulatively, the chapters characterize a discourse world of "middle-state" Academic Skepticism that Pope shared with his admirers. While the characterization of Pope's discourse world in The Rape of the Text has implications for Pope and for 18th-century scholarship beyond the Essay on Man, it also has implications for reading all philosophical poetry</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1="3" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Solomon contends that criticism of the Essay on Man is only an extreme example of the deformation that occurs routinely when literary critics or philosophers interpret philosophical poetry, and in the final chapter he calls for a "naturalization" of philosophical poetry as a genre as the necessary remedy to our present willful blindness</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Pope, Alexander <1688-1744></subfield><subfield code="t">Essay on man</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Pope, Alexander <1688-1744></subfield><subfield code="x">Criticism and interpretation</subfield><subfield code="x">History</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="600" ind1="1" ind2="7"><subfield code="a">Pope, Alexander</subfield><subfield code="d">1688-1744</subfield><subfield code="t">An essay on man</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4130169-9</subfield><subfield code="2">gnd</subfield><subfield code="9">rswk-swf</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="648" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Geschichte 1700-1800</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">An essay on man (Pope)</subfield><subfield code="2">gtt</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Geschichte</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Human beings in literature</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Philosophy in literature</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Philosophy, English</subfield><subfield code="y">18th century</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Pope, Alexander</subfield><subfield code="d">1688-1744</subfield><subfield code="t">An essay on man</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)4130169-9</subfield><subfield code="D">u</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="689" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="5">DE-604</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="m">HEBIS Datenaustausch</subfield><subfield code="q">application/pdf</subfield><subfield code="u">http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=005962594&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA</subfield><subfield code="3">Inhaltsverzeichnis</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-005962594</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV009017371 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-09T17:28:38Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 081730696X |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-005962594 |
| oclc_num | 26854001 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-12 DE-355 DE-BY-UBR DE-703 DE-19 DE-BY-UBM DE-83 DE-188 |
| owner_facet | DE-12 DE-355 DE-BY-UBR DE-703 DE-19 DE-BY-UBM DE-83 DE-188 |
| physical | 245 S. Ill. |
| publishDate | 1993 |
| publishDateSearch | 1993 |
| publishDateSort | 1993 |
| publisher | Univ. of Alabama Press |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Solomon, Harry M. Verfasser aut The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man Harry M. Solomon Tuscaloosa u.a. Univ. of Alabama Press 1993 245 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published in 1733-1734, An Essay on Man, Alexander Pope's best-known philosophical poem was highly praised by many of Pope's European contemporaries, including Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume. The poem, divided into four Epistles, deals with the nature of man and his place in the universe, man as an individual, man in society, and man in pursuit of happiness. Voltaire called An Essay on Man "the most beautiful, most useful, most sublime didactic poem" in the English language, but what was formerly regarded as the pinnacle of 18th-century poetry now languishes largely unread or misread as a quaint period piece. Harold Bloom recently described the Essay as a "poetic disaster" of "absurd theodicy." The Rape of the Text deconstructs the history of criticism of An Essay on Man to account for and to reverse over two hundred years of deformation and trivialization of Pope's text by literary critics, philosophers, and historians of ideas After showing why the commonplaces about the Essay inscribed in Pope scholarship are suspect because of the mutual and abiding hostility of logocentric and aesthetic traditions of misreading, Solomon rebuts the objections made to Pope's "philosophy" in a series of chapters demonstrating more appropriate strategies for interpreting Pope's persona, tone, methodology, argument, and figurality. Cumulatively, the chapters characterize a discourse world of "middle-state" Academic Skepticism that Pope shared with his admirers. While the characterization of Pope's discourse world in The Rape of the Text has implications for Pope and for 18th-century scholarship beyond the Essay on Man, it also has implications for reading all philosophical poetry Solomon contends that criticism of the Essay on Man is only an extreme example of the deformation that occurs routinely when literary critics or philosophers interpret philosophical poetry, and in the final chapter he calls for a "naturalization" of philosophical poetry as a genre as the necessary remedy to our present willful blindness Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Essay on man Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Criticism and interpretation History Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 An essay on man (DE-588)4130169-9 gnd rswk-swf Geschichte 1700-1800 An essay on man (Pope) gtt Geschichte Human beings in literature Philosophy in literature Philosophy, English 18th century Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 An essay on man (DE-588)4130169-9 u DE-604 HEBIS Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=005962594&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| spellingShingle | Solomon, Harry M. The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Essay on man Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Criticism and interpretation History Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 An essay on man (DE-588)4130169-9 gnd An essay on man (Pope) gtt Geschichte Human beings in literature Philosophy in literature Philosophy, English 18th century |
| subject_GND | (DE-588)4130169-9 |
| title | The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man |
| title_auth | The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man |
| title_exact_search | The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man |
| title_full | The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man Harry M. Solomon |
| title_fullStr | The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man Harry M. Solomon |
| title_full_unstemmed | The rape of the text reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man Harry M. Solomon |
| title_short | The rape of the text |
| title_sort | the rape of the text reading and misreading pope s essay on man |
| title_sub | reading and misreading Pope's Essay on Man |
| topic | Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Essay on man Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Criticism and interpretation History Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 An essay on man (DE-588)4130169-9 gnd An essay on man (Pope) gtt Geschichte Human beings in literature Philosophy in literature Philosophy, English 18th century |
| topic_facet | Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Essay on man Pope, Alexander <1688-1744> Criticism and interpretation History Pope, Alexander 1688-1744 An essay on man An essay on man (Pope) Geschichte Human beings in literature Philosophy in literature Philosophy, English 18th century |
| url | http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=005962594&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT solomonharrym therapeofthetextreadingandmisreadingpopesessayonman |