Emptying the Vessel: Chaucer's Humanistic Critique of Nominalism
- Author / Editor
- Crafton, John Micheal.
Emptying the Vessel: Chaucer's Humanistic Critique of Nominalism
- Published
- Richard J. Utz, ed. Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.; Lampeter, Wales: Eswin Mellen, 1995), pp. 117-34.
- Description
- Chaucer's works reflect a pattern of concern with the realist-nominalist issues of language. Early on, Chaucer critiques realism, and, later on, nominalism, while TC and especially CT pose the two views in dialogic debate. Fragment 6 (Phyt and PardT) represents the opposed extremes and then undermines them, exemplifying how Chaucer struggled with his predecessors and anticipated the Renaissance.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Physician and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.