TY - BOOK AU - Bloomfield,Morton W. TI - Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature SN - 9780674733039 PY - 2013///] CY - Cambridge, MA : PB - Harvard University Press, KW - Critique musicale KW - Melody KW - Mélodie KW - Music KW - History and criticism KW - Musical criticism KW - Musikalische Analyse KW - Musique KW - English philology KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access UR - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733046 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674733046 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674733046/original ER -