Literary Nominalism in Chaucer's Late-Medieval England: Toward a Preliminary Paradigm
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard [J.]
Literary Nominalism in Chaucer's Late-Medieval England: Toward a Preliminary Paradigm
- Published
- European Legacy 2.2 (1997): 206-11.
- Description
- Argues that recent attention to the late-medieval shift from realism to nominalism is attributable to a parallel shift in modern critical assumptions.
- Inspired by postmodern views of the world as "recalcitrant to universals, contingent, and supportive of . . . free will," critics have studied late-medieval nominalism as a source of linguistic and philosophical attitudes in the works of Chaucer and his contemporaries and as a bridge between medieval and modern views.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.