Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry

Author / Editor
Sklute, Larry (M.)

Title
Virtue of Necessity: Inconclusiveness and Narrative Form in Chaucer's Poetry

Published
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

Description
Dream visions, TC, the "outer form" of CT, and individual tales reveal an authorial evasion of closed, authoritative determinations of meaning and moral values--correlative to the cognitive indeterminacy of late-medieval nominalism. CT is suited to Chaucer's inconclusive epistemology.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.