The Translator's Voice in the Second Nun's 'Invocacio': Gender, Influence, and Textuality

Author / Editor
Kennedy, Thomas C.

Title
The Translator's Voice in the Second Nun's 'Invocacio': Gender, Influence, and Textuality

Published
Medievalia et Humanistica, n.s., 22 (1995): 95-110.

Description
Chaucer's translative and appropriative practice in SNP is characterized by "a limited personal perspective transcended by an authoritative source," plus a movement from abstraction (particularly in Dante) to concreteness.

Chaucer Subjects
Second Nun and Her Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.