'To Whom Shul We Compleyn?' The Poetics of Agency in Chaucer's Complaints
- Author / Editor
- Van Dyke, Carolynn.
'To Whom Shul We Compleyn?' The Poetics of Agency in Chaucer's Complaints
- Published
- Style 31 (1997): 370-90.
- Description
- Chaucer's complaints develop a "poetics of agency" as they explore questions of subjectivity and causation. His most sophisticated complaint, Mars, presents "incompatible forms of causation" but makes them congruent poetically, achieving a compassion that links subjectivity to the larger created world.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars.