Chaucerian Realism Book

	Acknowledgements
	Edition
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Chaucerian realism	1
	'Realisms' and nominalism: sources of confusion	1
	Major misunderstanding: Robert M. Jordan	11
	Major misunderstandings: Nine More Critics	16
	Chaucer's ethical realism	22
	'Wordes white' and 'ententes black': Chaucer, ethics and language	27
Ch. 2	The Thesis of Intentionality: Medieval and Modern	33
	The thesis of intentionality: the linguistic return	33
	'Entente' and intentio: medieval psycholinguistics	39
	Intentionality, creationism, and language	45
	Chaucer and the medieval thesis of intentionality	47
	Signs and psychology: the thesis of intentionality	51
Ch. 3	Judeo-Christian Semiological Metaphysics: Chaucer's Metaphysical Option	55
	Creationism: presence and/or absence	56
	The metaphysics of presence and absence	60
	The metaphysics of speech	66
Ch. 4	Medieval and Modern Understandings of Mode of Presentation	75
	The modern understanding of mode of presentation	75
	Four medieval understandings of mode of presentation	77
	Three-level semantics	87
	Three-level semantics from Augustine to Frege	88
Ch. 5	Chaucerian Entencioun: Mode of Presentation and Three-level Semantics in the Friar's Tale	91
	The 'ententes' of 'rente'	93
	The 'ententes' of 'entente'	103
	The 'entente' of curses	108
Ch. 6	Intentionality: The Couplings of a Fool	117
	The Friar's Tale and the grammar of sex	118
	Summoners and the grammar of sex	123
	The couplings of a fool	126
	Conclusion	133
	Works Cited	136
	Index	146