Idealistic-Materialistic Oppositions as an Informing Principle in Chaucer's Philosophical Narratives

Author / Editor
Bachman, William Bryant,Jr.

Title
Idealistic-Materialistic Oppositions as an Informing Principle in Chaucer's Philosophical Narratives

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 36 (1976): 6696A.

Description
By the fourteenth century Augustinian idealism had lost ground to rising confidence in the experiential world. TC, KnT, FranT, and NPT all reveal the movement towards determinism. The idealism of the ParsT forms an opposition to this movement.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.