Adaptation as Translation: A Fifteenth-Century Chaucerian Case.
- Author / Editor
- Koff, Leonard Michael.
Adaptation as Translation: A Fifteenth-Century Chaucerian Case.
- Published
- Medieval Translator/Traduire au Moyen Age 14 (2018): 395-409.
- Description
- Contrasts medieval Augustinian views of translation with those of modern translation theory and practice, applying the former to the adaptation/translation of CkT found in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 686. Argues that the Bodley scribe constructed his version of the tale because, assuming that Chaucer "intended to write a chastising narrative," he followed Augustinian practices and incorporated various features of fifteenth-century moral literary discourse in a Langlandian mode.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Cook and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations