CHAUCER MEDIEVAL REALISM LITERATURE POETRY SEMIOLOGY METAPHYSICS REVIEW COPY 1ST
Myles also argues that Chaucer is a realist in the philosophical sense, a view which goes counter to the current of much recent criticism. The John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Literature, Peck was internationally known as an authority on Middle English literature, especially works by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Malory.