Understanding Chaucer's Intellectual and Interpretative World: Nominalist Fiction: No. 41 (Studies in British Literature S.) - Hardcover

Foster, Edward E.

 
9780773479722: Understanding Chaucer's Intellectual and Interpretative World: Nominalist Fiction: No. 41 (Studies in British Literature S.)

Synopsis

The problem of undecideability is a preoccupation of Chaucer criticism. This study, while noting but not trying to account for every prior approach, proposes the positive alternative that in making his fictions, Chaucer gibes the Ockhamite nominalist approach to human understanding of the world.

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