Writing Amorous Wrongs: Chaucer and the Order of Complaint
- Author / Editor
- Patterson Lee.
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.