Chaucer's 'Compaint unto Pity' and the Insights of Allegory
- Author / Editor
- Putter, Ad.
Chaucer's 'Compaint unto Pity' and the Insights of Allegory
- Published
- Christopher Cannon and Maura Nolan, eds. Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann (Cambridge: Brewer, 2011), pp. 166-81.
- Description
- Pity's "double life" as person and quality "calls attention to the mechanics" of allegory and to one's "ordinary" experience of pity; through word play, pity is both dead to the frustrated lover and alive to others.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature: Essays in Honour of Jill Mann.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint unto Pity.