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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
Essays and Explorations
:
Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature
Contains:
FrontmatterPrefaceContents1. The Origin of the Concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins2. Chaucer's Sense of History3· Some Reflections on the Medieval Idea of Perfection4. Understanding Old English Poetry5. Symbolism in Medieval Lite6. Episodic Motivation and Marvels in Epic and Romance7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Appraisal (1961)8. Piers Plowman as a Fourteenth- Century Apocalypse9. Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer10. Distance and Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde11. Canadian English and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century American Speech12. Final Root-forming Morphemes13. A Grammatical Approach to Personification Allegory14. The Syncategorematic in Poetry: From Semantics to Syntactics15. 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.
Place of reproduction:
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard University Press, 1970
Reproduction note:
Electronic reproduction; Mode of access: World Wide Web Also available in print edition
Origination:
Footnote:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Description:
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