Chaucer's Early Translations from French: The Art of Creative Transformation
- Author / Editor
- Weiss, Alexander.
Chaucer's Early Translations from French: The Art of Creative Transformation
- Published
- Patricia W. Cummins, Patrick W. Connor, and Charles W. Connell, eds. Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 1981 SEMA Meeting (Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 1982), pp. 174-82.
- Description
- The success of Chaucer's early translations from French cannot be attributed solely to his knack for finding the "mot juste" or to his "good ear" for English idiom. He drew on the native English poetic tradition for visual concreteness and meaningful rhythms.
- Alternative Title
- Literary and Historical Perspectives of the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 1981 SEMA Meeting.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.