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Essays and Explorations : Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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