Essays and Explorations : : Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature / / Morton W. Bloomfield.

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1970
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (321 p.) :; illustrated
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • I. History of Ideas
  • 1. The Origin of the Concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins
  • 2. Chaucer's Sense of History
  • 3· Some Reflections on the Medieval Idea of Perfection
  • II. Approaches to Medieval Literature
  • 4. Understanding Old English Poetry
  • 5. Symbolism in Medieval Lite
  • 6. Episodic Motivation and Marvels in Epic and Romance
  • III. Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature
  • 7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Appraisal (1961)
  • 8. Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth- Century Apocalypse
  • 9. Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer
  • 10. Distance and Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde
  • IV. Language and Linguistics
  • 11. Canadian English and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century American Speech
  • 12. Final Root-forming Morphemes
  • 13. A Grammatical Approach to Personification Allegory
  • 14. The Syncategorematic in Poetry: From Semantics to Syntactics
  • V. Essay-Reviews
  • 15. Kenneth Sisam, The Structure of Beowulf (New York and Oxford, 1965)
  • 16. Nevill Coghill, The Pardon of Piers Plowman (Proceedings of the British Academy, 1945)
  • 17. D. W. Robertson and Bernard F. Huppé, Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition (Princeton, 1951)
  • 18. Sanford Β. Meech, Design in Chaucer's "Troilus" (Syracuse, 1959)
  • Index