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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloomfield, Morton W., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Essays and Explorations".

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-73304-5

OCLC:

1024004969