Ockham, Chaucer, and the Emergence of Modern Poetics
- Author / Editor
- Kimmelman, Burt.
Ockham, Chaucer, and the Emergence of Modern Poetics
- Published
- John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, eds. The Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne (Madison, N.J., and London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and Associated University Presses, 2000), pp. 177-205.
- Description
- Chaucer's narrative persona is related to the Ockhamist controversy in that his narrator struggles with questions of experience and authoritative knowledge and of whether experience can convey truth. Particularly in Chaucer's dream-vision poems, nominalist ideas provide the basis for Chaucer's examination of literary authority.
- Alternative Title
- Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages: Reconstructive Polyphony. Essays in Honor of Robert O. Payne.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.