'Translatio': 'Difficult Statement' in Medieval Poetic Theory
- Author / Editor
- Nims, Margaret.
'Translatio': 'Difficult Statement' in Medieval Poetic Theory
- Published
- University of Toronto Quarterly 43 (1974): 215-30.
- Description
- Traces commentaries on metaphor ("translatio") among medieval classicizing poets and rhetoricians, especially Alan de Lille and Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and examines samples of metaphor in Chaucer's works that reflect these commentaries. Focuses on "complex metaphors" that guide episodes or complete narratives, e.g., the garden in MerT, pilgrimage in CT, etc.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Merchant and His Tale
- Canterbury Tales--General