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Alexander Pope's progressive texts.

Roberts, John.

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Alexander Pope's progressive texts.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Alexander Pope's progressive texts./
Author:	Roberts, John.
Description:	216 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1364.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-04A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3170869
ISBN:	9780542072567

Alexander Pope's progressive texts.
Roberts, John.

Alexander Pope's progressive texts. - 216 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-04, Section: A, page: 1364.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2005.

Alexander Pope's poetry is illuminated when studied in the context of a changing apprehension of temporality in English society and its consequences for the content and form of literary texts. Influenced by predecessors such as Buckingham and by contemporaries such as Addison and his own fellow Scriblerians, Pope experiments with "progressive texts," texts that hold themselves open to contemporary events by establishing devices that allow them to collect, incorporate, and respond to the ongoing discourse of the present. The central intentional element of these texts is anticipated development over time; progressive texts are designed to create literary meaning precisely in and through updating and expansion. The meaning Pope generates through the temporal progress of his texts has been underappreciated. Study of the Essay on Man, the Epistle to Burlington, and the Epilogue to the Satires reveals that Pope employs organic and temporal metaphors for natural order, and constructs a model of proper interpretation that depends upon the awareness of potential change over time. He therefore designs texts that call upon his readers to perform the retrospective and prospective labor of comparing present textual "parts" with prior editions and anticipated future editions. In The Dunciad Pope masters progressive form, pursuing his authorial intentions over the entire arc of its chronology. The fourth book is not a textual "problem," but rather a fulfillment of the text's design replete with doubled images that narrate the progress of Queen Dulness while revealing The Dunciad's dramatization of its own textual progress. Reading The Dunciad as a progressive text offers a new approach to central interpretive questions such as (1) the function of the apparatus, which does not detract from the poem but rather impels the reader to an awareness of the text's progressive patterns; and (2) the function of Pope's allusions to Paradise Lost, which are not intended to parody the dunces but rather to call attention to Pope's ability to imitate Milton's God in the fulfillment of an ordained purpose through the ironized efforts of his enemies. Pope's allusions to Paradise Lost hint at the "deep Intent" he pursues in The Dunciad.

ISBN: 9780542072567Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Alexander Pope's progressive texts.
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