A Literary 'Debate over Universals'?: New Perspectives on the Relationships Between Nominalism, Realism, and Literary Discourse

Author / Editor
Keiper, Hugo.

Title
A Literary 'Debate over Universals'?: New Perspectives on the Relationships Between Nominalism, Realism, and Literary Discourse

Published
Hugo Keiper, Richard J. Utz, and Cristoph Bode, eds. Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 1-85.

Description
Reexamines the correspondences between literary nominalism and realism as competing paradigms and analyzes critical approaches to the literary debate on universals in late-medieval (especially Chaucerian) and early modern literary studies.

Alternative Title
Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.