The Absent Father: Translating Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Goldbeck, Janne.

Title
The Absent Father: Translating Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Rendezvous 32.1 (1997): 87-93.

Description
Translations of Chaucer's works, especially CT, into modern English reflect individual translators' valuations of Chaucer's poetic virtues, whether "freshness," modernity, humor, irony, or something else.
Suggests that when read in translation, Chaucer should be read in multiple versions.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Canterbury Tales--General.