The Clerk vs. the Wife of Bath: Nominalism, Carnival, and Chaucer's Last Laugh
- Author / Editor
- Grossi, Joseph L.,Jr.
The Clerk vs. the Wife of Bath: Nominalism, Carnival, and Chaucer's Last Laugh
- 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. 147-78.
- Description
- Reads ClT as a realist's attack on nominalism, with Walter depicting an unfree diety, and Griselda, rampant fideism. Chaucer moderates the Clerk's realism at the end of the Tale and in the Envoy.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.