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This dissertation is a study of Chaucer's translations, seeking to situate them in political contexts. Spurred by the political roles of the Wycliffite Bible and Trevisa's translations, this dissertation attempts to suggest political implications of Chaucer's translations during his lifetime. As the topoi of the translatio studii and the translatio imperii have long suggested, translation involves not only the transfer of language and knowledge from one culture to another but also reconfiguration of power relations. Living in an "Age of Translation" in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer was actively participating in contemporary cultural movements by translating The Romaunt of the Rose and The Boece. However, Chaucer's two prose translations were by no means politically neutral: they were his own responses to current political situations. What is more remarkable about his two translations are their changing fortunes: under specific historical conditions, the two translations could have had political implications directly opposite to those originally intended by their author. In translating The Romaunt of the Rose, Chaucer was not only a faithful student imitating French culture b

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Author

Inchol Yoo

Publisher

Michigan State University

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781109635829

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, History