'I Wot Myself Best How Y Stonde': Literary Nominalism, Open Textual Form and the Enfranchisement of Individual Perspective in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Author / Editor
Keiper, Hugo.

Title
'I Wot Myself Best How Y Stonde': Literary Nominalism, Open Textual Form and the Enfranchisement of Individual Perspective in Chaucer's Dream Visions

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: Edwin Mellen, 1995), pp. 205-34.

Description
Demonstrates the fundamental, formal open-endedness of BD, HF, and, especially, PF, arguing that the poems exemplify a kind of "literary nominalism" that obliquely reflects contemporary philosophical discourse. Aligns nominalism with "open literary forms; realism, with "closed" ones.
Aligns nominalism with "open literary forms; realism, with "closed" ones.

Alternative Title
Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.
Book of the Duchess.
House of Fame.