Translating the Female
- Author / Editor
- Astell, Ann [W.]
Translating the Female
- Published
- Jeanette Beer, ed. Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 1997), pp. 59-69.
- Description
- The link of Griselda and Job in ClT recalls Saint Gregory's "Moralia" in Job, which "translates" Job as feminine. In casting Job as a female figure, Chaucer reveals the contradictions and misogyny of Gregory's exegesis.
- Alternative Title
- Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages.
- Translating Job as Female.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.