Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Ginsberg, Warren.

Title
Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."

Published
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015

Physical Description
viii, 250 pp.

Description
With special consideration of Ovid, Dante, and Boccaccio as models (not sources), explores the relationship between Chaucer's predecessors and CT while conducting in-depth investigation into Chaucer's reworking of the original texts both through the pilgrims' tales as translations and the pilgrims themselves as translators. Examines individual characters' narrative roles in FranT, WBT, ClT, MerT, PardT, and MilT, and focuses on Chaucer's use of interruption of speech and repetition as narrative conventions.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Style and Versification
Canterbury Tales--General
Miller and His Tale
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Clerk and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale
Pardoner and His Tale