"Save oure tonges difference": Reflections on Translating Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" into Afrikaans.
- Author / Editor
- Boje, Johannes Gerhardus.
"Save oure tonges difference": Reflections on Translating Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" into Afrikaans.
- Published
- Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pretoria, 2019). Available at https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/74353 (accessed December 1, 2021).
- Description
- Reflects on "the process and outcome of an Afrikaans translation" of CT and includes a complete translation in an appendix, matching Chaucer's verse and prose, completed over the course of sixty years. The study explores translation theory and practical application and concludes that, drawing on the "vast resources of the target language," translation "throws new light on the source text."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations