Structural Unity and Mystical Unity in Later Medieval English Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Valdes Miyares, Ruben.
Structural Unity and Mystical Unity in Later Medieval English Narrative
- Published
- Teresa Fanego Lema, ed. Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature (Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1993), pp. 305-13.
- Description
- Mutual concern with mystical wholeness and unity in Chaucer, Langland, and Malory derives from literary and intellectual tradition rather than from the authors' philosophical acceptance of such an ideal. The ideal is unattainable in their works, thereby reflecting the nominalistic challenge to Neoplatonic tradition. Truth is the goal of their protagonists, but the protagonists fail to achieve this goal on earth.
- Alternative Title
- Papers from the IVth International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.