Chaucer's French Translations

Author / Editor
Phillips, Helen.

Title
Chaucer's French Translations

Published
Nottingham Medieval Studies 37 (1993): 65-81.

Description
Examines four principles in Chaucer's translations: redistribution, themes from works, syntactic symmetry, and homonym translation. Relates these principles to medieval practices of reading, writing, and translation, showing that the distinction between translation and creativity is not clear-cut.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.