Translation, Creation, and Empowerment in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Yoo, Inchol.
Translation, Creation, and Empowerment in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."
- Published
- Journal of English Language and Literature (Korea) 57 (2011): 1173-98.
- Description
- Considers the "politics of translation" in ClT, arguing that the tale is primarily concerned with how Walter "draws out the willing submission of his subjects," manifest in the "analogical relation between Walter and Griselda as the translator and his translation." Through his testing, Walter creates a new Griselda whose identity helps him to strengthen his power over his land and people.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale