Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?

Author / Editor
Butterfield, Ardis.

Title
Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?

Published
University of Toronto Quarterly 88.2 (2019): 142-59.

Description
Reexamines theories of Auerbach and Spitzer through the lens of issues of translatability and untranslatability in medieval lyrics. Argues that medieval lyric poetry "shows the power of untranslatability to disrupt and re-make literary history." Examines Troilus's song in Book I of TC as a translation of Petrarch deliberately changed by Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Lyrics and Short Poems