TY - BOOK AU - Atkins,G.Douglas TI - Quests of difference: reading Pope's poems SN - 9780813161891 AV - PR3634 .A384 2015 U1 - 821.5 PY - 2015///], ©1986 CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Pope, Alexander, KW - Verse satire, English KW - History and criticism KW - Deconstruction KW - Poésie satirique anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Déconstruction KW - Deconstructivist KW - aat KW - POETRY KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - fast KW - Pope, Alexander KW - 1688-1744 KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=938641 ER -