Literary Nominalism and Medieval Sign Theory: Problems and Perspectives
- Author / Editor
- Penn, Stephen.
Literary Nominalism and Medieval Sign Theory: Problems and Perspectives
- Published
- Hugo Keiper, Richard J. Utz, and Cristoph Bode, eds. Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997), pp. 157-89.
- Description
- Nominalism and literature were never parts of a single, seamless discourse; influences between them are at best complex and indirect. Penn surveys research on literary nominalism in late-medieval (mostly Chaucerian) texts, arguing that sources other than nominalist philosophy better explain the ambiguities, linguistic playfulness, and similar symptoms of "nominalist" tendencies in late-medieval literature.
- Alternative Title
- Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.