The Canterbury Tales in Turkish: A Cultural Translation
- Author / Editor
- Reis, Huriye.
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