Publication: Translating Middle English (Im)politeness: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale
Translating Middle English (Im)politeness: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale
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Jucker, A. H., & Seiler, A. (2023). Translating Middle English (Im)politeness: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale. The Chaucer Review, 58(1), 35–59. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.58.1.0035
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Some of the bawdy details of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales continue to pose challenges to translators, who must find renderings that are both descriptively and stylistically adequate. The Miller’s Tale provides an illustrative case study, in which the drunken narrator describes Nicholas’s rather physical wooing of the carpenter’s wife Alisoun in graphic detail. Existing translations of the key term queynte range from the flowery euphemism to the straightforward vulgarism. An appropriate translation into present-day English needs to be ba
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Jucker, A. H., & Seiler, A. (2023). Translating Middle English (Im)politeness: The Case of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale. The Chaucer Review, 58(1), 35–59. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.58.1.0035
