After Relativism : Literary Theory After the Linguistic Turn

Author / Editor
Jolliffe, Christine.

Title
After Relativism : Literary Theory After the Linguistic Turn

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 2287A, 1999.

Description
With the linguistic turn from mimetic to generative properties of language, the traditional understanding of many aspects of literary and intellectual history has been denied. Jolliffe questions this extreme position in the light of writers such as Heloise, Chaucer, and modern authors.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.