Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature

Morton W. Bloomfield

Published by Harvard University Press 1970

Essays and Explorations

Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature

Morton W. Bloomfield

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733046

Contents

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I. History of Ideas
1. The Origin of the Concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
2. Chaucer's Sense of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
3· Some Reflections on the Medieval Idea of Perfection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
II. Approaches to Medieval Literature
4. Understanding Old English Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
5. Symbolism in Medieval Lite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
6. Episodic Motivation and Marvels in Epic and Romance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
III. Chaucer and Fourteenth-Century English Literature
7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Appraisal (1961) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
8. Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth- Century Apocalypse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
9. Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
10. Distance and Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
IV. Language and Linguistics
11. Canadian English and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century American Speech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
12. Final Root-forming Morphemes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
13. A Grammatical Approach to Personification Allegory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
14. The Syncategorematic in Poetry: From Semantics to Syntactics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
V. Essay-Reviews
15. Kenneth Sisam, The Structure of Beowulf (New York and Oxford, 1965) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
16. Nevill Coghill, The Pardon of Piers Plowman (Proceedings of the British Academy, 1945) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
17. D. W. Robertson and Bernard F. Huppé, Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition (Princeton, 1951) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
18. Sanford Β. Meech, Design in Chaucer's "Troilus" (Syracuse, 1959) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1970
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 321
Illustrations
- Other: illustrated
Keywords: English philology.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674733046

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1970
ISBN: 9780674733039