From Grammar's Pan to Logic's Fire: Intentionality in Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Williams, David
From Grammar's Pan to Logic's Fire: Intentionality in Chaucer's 'Friar's Tale'
- Published
- Gary Wihl and David Williams, eds. Literature and Ethics: Essays Presented to A. E. Malloch (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), pp. 77-95.
- Description
- In FrT, Chaucer satirizes some "excesses of fourteenth-century logical demonstration" and develops a "theory of fiction from the theories of intention current in his day." Intentionality involves the "relation of language to the real," and "conflicting views of the concept of intentionality lie at the heart of the larger realist-nominalist debate in the Middle Ages."
- Williams examines the drama of intention in FrT in this context. The Friar tries to condemn the Summoner to hell but in doing so condemns himself.
- Contributor
- Wihl, Gary,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and Ethics: Essays Presented to A. E. Malloch.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Friar and His Tale.