Chaucer Translator
| Author | : Paul Beekman Taylor |
| Publisher | : University Press of America |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0761809643 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780761809647 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (647 Downloads) |
Download or read book Chaucer Translator written by Paul Beekman Taylor and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Chaucer's re-contextualizing of story and the ways in which he re-tailors old texts into new apparel. After a polemical introduction, five chapters reveal Chaucer confronting the implications of Nominalism and Realism to translation in his Canterbury Tales. The next four chapters consider "borrowings" from old texts which are put to modern use in Chaucer's stories. A final chapter sums up Chaucer's style of translation with a look at two translations from Petrarch. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
