Translating Spiritual to Corporeal in the Dusk of the Miller's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Taylor, Paul Beekman.
Translating Spiritual to Corporeal in the Dusk of the Miller's Tale
- Published
- Paul Beekman Taylor. Chaucer Translator (Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 1998), pp. 39-50.
- Description
- Reads MilT as a dim, worldly "eschatological drama" in which providential order is turned to disorder and "spiritual grace to secular disgrace." Analyzes various words and details ("ba," "stone," the ring, etc.), the concern with Noah's Flood, and the activities in the darkness, arguing that MilT "translates" the Knight's high ideals to a "comedy of errors" and reduces spiritual secrets to mundane deception.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Translator.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Miller and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.