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  1. Eve's unEven relationship with Adam: Milton's Paradise Lost in the light of politeness theory
    Author: Ghasemi, Parvin; Kahmini, Mostafa Sadeghi
    Published: 2015

    Abstract: Feminists, among others, have found Eve's representation in Milton's Paradise Lost problematic over the last centuries. Some of them consider Eve to be Adam’s inferior while others find traces of egalitarian relationship between them. This... more

     

    Abstract: Feminists, among others, have found Eve's representation in Milton's Paradise Lost problematic over the last centuries. Some of them consider Eve to be Adam’s inferior while others find traces of egalitarian relationship between them. This study uses Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson's Politeness Theory and applies it to the conversations between Adam and Eve prior to the Fall in order to address this issue. It is demonstrated in this article that, before the Fall, Eve always exercises less power than Adam except for a brief moment that she achieves equality

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/57496
    DDC Categories: 300; 301
    Other subjects: (thesoz)Höflichkeit; (thesoz)Theorie; (thesoz)Gleichheit; (thesoz)Macht; (thesoz)Bibel; (thesoz)Geschlecht; (thesoz)Vergleich; (thesoz)Feminismus; (thesoz)Literatur; (thesoz)Dichtung; Milton, J.; Paradies
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    begutachtet (peer reviewed)

    In: International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2015) 47 ; 174-183