Negotiating the Paradigm: Literary Nominalism and the Theory and Practice of Rereading Late Medieval Texts
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard J.
Negotiating the Paradigm: Literary Nominalism and the Theory and Practice of Rereading Late Medieval Texts
- Published
- Richard Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp.1-30.
- Description
- Surveys the critical application of nominalism to medieval literary texts, suggesting three main approaches: nominalist text as source, as coeval philosophical substratum, and as historical corroboration of modern perceptions.
- Postulates Chaucer's knowledge of nominalism via Ralph Strode and public "disputationes" and reads the epilogue of TC as a problem-solving device similar to nominalist leaps of faith.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.