Chaucer Criollo: employing oral poetry and music in the translation of Canterbury tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer. Translation. Popular poetry.Abstract
This paper analyzes formal poetic lexicon-related features used in my translation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, published by Penguin Company in 2013. Aiming to produce the double effect of familiarity and strangeness on modern brazilian reader, I resorted to literary procedures inspired by popular poetry and some genres of regionalist music from different places in Brazil. Such procedures include the use of assonant rhyme and the insertion of words from regional dialects into specific passages of the work. I discuss the changeable form of the assonant rhyme in the history of literary forms, especially its disfavor along the nineteenth century, and I quote instances of its use in Brazilian popular songs during the twentieth century, connecting these elements to selected excerpts from The Cantebury Tales.Downloads
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