"Buried in an herte": French Poetics and the Ends of Genre in Chaucer's "Complaint unto Pity."
- Author / Editor
- Rogers, Cynthia A.
"Buried in an herte": French Poetics and the Ends of Genre in Chaucer's "Complaint unto Pity."
- Published
- Chaucer Review 51.2 (2016): 187-208.
- Description
- Argues that Pity is both a "clever critique" of the French lyric genre of complaint and "loving homage" to it, assessing aspects of exaggeration, repetition, structure, conventional theme and diction, wordplay, etc. as evidence that the poem evokes delight in the genre by means of appreciative parody.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint unto Pity
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations