Translation, Creation, and Empowerment in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."

Author / Editor
Yoo, Inchol.

Title
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