• Eloisa and the Scene of Writing in Pope’s “Eloisa to Abelard”

    Author(s):
    Albert Rolls (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Subject(s):
    Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Derrida, Alexander Pope
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6RW0X
    Abstract:
    In Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard," the act of writing takes the place of the romance being written about. It is by way of the writing process that the romantic other replaces God as the object of devotion. Eloisa’s writing would thus seem to function as Derrida argues writing functions in western philosophy in that it articulates one absence and generates another. Yet writing has an alternative function in the poem. Because it becomes a surrogate for romance, it produces the other’s presence and also the theological crisis the poem explores.
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    Publisher:
    Vitalpoetics: A Journal of Critical Literary Theory
    Pub. Date:
    2008
    Journal:
    Vitalpoetics: A Journal of Critical Literary Theory
    Volume:
    1
    Issue:
    1
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
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