The Chaucerian Translator.

Author / Editor
Beal, Jane.

Title
The Chaucerian Translator.

Published
Albrecht Classen, ed. Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives (Boston: De Gruyter, 2022), pp. 233-52.

Description
Argues that the "Chaucerian narrator could easily and perhaps more readily be called the Chaucerian translator," observing emphasis on translation in LGWP and in Ret, assessing Chaucer's many uses of sources and approaches to translation, including satirizing mistranslation and lack of translation (e.g., in NPT), and exploring the penitential, even salvific effects of good translations in MelP, ParsT, and Ret.

Contributor
Classen, Albrecht, ed.

Alternative Title
Communication, Translation, and Community in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period: New Cultural-Historical and Literary Perspectives

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Legend of Good Women
Tale of Melibee
Nun's Priest and His Tale
Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction