'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.
'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.