Chaucer and the Nominalist Questions

Author / Editor
Peck, Russell A.

Title
Chaucer and the Nominalist Questions

Published
Speculum 53 (1978): 745-60.

Description
As a nominalist, Ockham is aware of the limitation of human perception and the weakness of language to convey ideas without distortion. In a different way, Chaucer, too, is concerned with these problems, though as a poet he tends to emphasize (not denigrate) ambiguity and paradox.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.