Sexual Poetics and the Politics of Translation in the Tale of Griselda
- Author / Editor
- Campbell, Emma.
Sexual Poetics and the Politics of Translation in the Tale of Griselda
- Published
- Comparative Literature 55: 191-216, 2003.
- Description
- Campbell applies Judith Butler's theories of performative gender identity and "cultural translation" to ClT and its sources in Petrarch and Boccaccio. In Chaucer's version, authority is translated to the vernacular and to oral discourse, challenging to Petrarch's version but nevertheless asserting masculine authority over feminine texts and bodies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.