Literarischer Nominalismus im Spatmittelalter: Eine Untersuchung von Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur in Chaucers 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Description: Utz's interdisciplinary study parallels the tenets of late-medieval nominalism and the main features of Chaucer's TC.; The poet's critical inquiry into the universal "proverb," his breaking away from allegory, his creation of a Criseyde motivated by her own free will, his warning against radical idealism/"realism" in the depiction of Troilus, and finally his structural separation of two kinds of truth are typical late-medieval literary reactions to the main philosophical conflicts of the fourteenth century.; The author's 1989 Universitat Regensburg dissertation.