Writing Amorous Wrongs: Chaucer and the Order of Complaint

Author / Editor
Patterson Lee.

Title
Writing Amorous Wrongs: Chaucer and the Order of Complaint

Published
James M. Dean and Christian Zacher, eds. The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1992), pp. 55-71.

Description
Chaucer maintained a persistent interest in the complaint genre. Its modest dimensions and unprepossessing claims are part of its appeal, but Chaucer raises large questions about the foundations of cultural and metaphysical truths through the "Canticus Troili" and Mars.

Alternative Title
Idea of Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Complaint of Mars.