Chaucer's 'Makyng' of the Romaunt of the Rose
- Author / Editor
- Sánchez Martí, Jordi.
Chaucer's 'Makyng' of the Romaunt of the Rose
- Published
- Journal of English Studies 3 : 217-36, 2001-02.
- Description
- Applies modern translation theories to Rom, identifying Chaucer's goal of testing the "capacity of English to attain higher spheres of expression." Far from being a servile translator, Chaucer composed a "metapoem" with a range of translational strategies (dilution, concentration, specification, explicitation, and variation), anticipating his later tendency to transform his source texts completely.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Romaunt of the Rose.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations