The Lyric Planet: Chaucer's Construction of Subjectivity in the 'Complaint of Mars'

Author / Editor
Van Dyke, Carolynn.

Title
The Lyric Planet: Chaucer's Construction of Subjectivity in the 'Complaint of Mars'

Published
Chaucer Review 31 (1996): 164-72.

Description
The multiple voices in "Complaint of Mars" mask the identity of the real lyric subject. An examination of these voices reveals that the real lyric subject is the reader, who discovers that he or she is not, like Mars, an autonomous self.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint of Mars.