'Awak: Chaucer Translates Bird Songs
- Author / Editor
- Koff, Leonard Michael.
'Awak: Chaucer Translates Bird Songs
- Published
- Roger Ellis and Rene Tixier, eds. The Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age, 5. ([Turnhout, Belgium]: Brepols, 1996), pp. 390-418.
- Description
- Briefly sketches a medieval philosophy of animal language in relation to medieval notions of translation as a communal ideal. In ClT, Chaucer presents translation as a form of revelation; in SumT, it is transgressive; in KnT, a kind of disguise. In ManT, translation is replaced by silence to indicate that incomprehensibility is a moral rather than a linguistic phenomenon.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Translator, no. 05
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.