Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's "The Inferno" and "The Tain."

Author / Editor
McCarthy, Conor.

Title
Time, Place, Language, and Translation: Ciaran Carson's "The Inferno" and "The Tain."

Published
Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones, eds. The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 239-53.

Description
Uses Chaucer and the "Pearl"-poet as metonyms for the tasks of translating and updating medieval works for later readers. Evokes both works in these translations, if at times obliquely.

Alternative Title
The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-First Century Perspectives.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion