Mnemosyne's Son: Chaucer, Translation, and the Creation of English Textual Memory
- Author / Editor
- Valenzuela, Shannon K.
Mnemosyne's Son: Chaucer, Translation, and the Creation of English Textual Memory
- Published
- DAI A69.06 (2008): n.p.
- Description
- Traces Chaucer's interest in three concerns that are related to the development of English as a vernacular language: "the nature of translation, the construction of textual memory, and the relationship between reading and ethics." Assesses literal translation in Astr; ekphrasis in BD, PF, and HF; mediated translation in TC; and biblical translation in MilT, ParsPT, and Ret.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Book of the Duchess
- Parliament of Fowls
- House of Fame
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Miller and His Tale
- Parson and His Tale
- Chaucer's Retraction