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What Rosalind Likes : Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English Verse by Paul J. Hecht is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"What Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd’s poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line. What are these people so angry about? Thus begins a journey into a world where the details of poetic form and vagaries of Latin translation are caught up in the dynamics of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and power, where too much alliteration
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Paul J. Hecht
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192857200
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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