The Canterbury Tales in Turkish: A Cultural Translation

Author / Editor
Reis, Huriye.

Title
The Canterbury Tales in Turkish: A Cultural Translation

Published
Çeviribilim ve Uygulamalari Dergisi (Journal of Translation Studies, Hacettepe University) 11 (2001): 47-58.

Description
Two translations of Chaucerian works into Turkish--GP (1993), by Barçin Erol, and CT (1994), by Nazim Ağil--illustrate the "cultural approximation necessitated by the act of translation." Reis assesses specific passages from these translations, focusing on matters such as diction, proverbial expressions, and cultural expectations. In English, with English and Turkish abstracts.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Canterbury Tales--General
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales