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Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
7:21 AM
Wow, @Brahadeesh. You're already the #2 all-time voter on meta.
 
user185131
Yeah, I'm going through all the Meta posts systematically from oldest to newest to learn about what the site policies are and what kind of discussions shaped them :)
 
user185131
This is why some people have been receiving Nice Question and Nice Answer badges on old Meta posts recently: literature.meta.stackexchange.com/help/badges (the "Recent Badges" sidebar shows some of them)
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
That's how I noticed someone is voting a lot :-)
 
user185131
You've received 3 Nice Answers, 1 Nice Question, 1 Revival and 1 Enlightened — yeah, that's a lot of notifications... :D
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
1:41 PM
Wow. The Tale of Genji is actually undersold by its presentation in the original proposal on meta. Not only is it (argued by some to be) the world's first novel, written over 1000 years ago, but it has over 400 characters none of whom (given societal norms at the time) are ever referred to by personal name, and it was written in a style of language that was already unreadable to most Japanese readers only 100 years later. That's so fascinating.
 
 
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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
3:59 PM
@Randal'Thor I admit I haven't read it yet. I ordered it almost six weeks ago and I'm still waiting for it to be delivered ...
 
Knight
Knight
4:58 PM
Today, you really helped so much by answering that question Tsundoku. Thanks (I meant it).
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
6:04 PM
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Q: Which English translation of The Tale of Genji is the most accurate yet readable?

Rand al'ThorThe Tale of Genji was originally written in an archaic form of Japanese, and has been translated both into modern Japanese and into English multiple times. Wikipedia says "The first English translation was attempted in 1882 but was of poor quality and incomplete", and lists a whole bunch of trans...

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Tsundoku
Tsundoku
6:56 PM
@Bookworm Based on the descriptions on Wikipedia, I chose Tyler's translation.
 
Rand al'Thor
Rand al'Thor
7:34 PM
@Tsundoku I was planning to post a question about "solid" vs "sullied" vs "sallied" in Hamlet's speech: how these three different versions arose and what are the arguments for and against each one in the wider context of the play and of its different versions through time. That's still worth a new question, right? I'm guessing there's more to say about it than is in your answer on "too too".
 
Bookworm
Bookworm
7:46 PM
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Q: What is the myth-making school of Shakespeare criticism?

TsundokuIn Inga-Stina Ewbank's essay "The Triumph of Time in The Winter's Tale" (Review of English Literature, 5 (1964); reprinted in Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale. A Casebook, edited by Kenneth Muir, 1968), I encountered the following passage: Critics of the myth-making school read these lines as a co...

william-shakespeare literary-criticism the-winters-tale
 
Tsundoku
Tsundoku
8:18 PM
@Randal'Thor Yes, more can be said. I didn't want to draw in Hibbard's two page annex from his Oxford edition. And I checked only three out of the five Hamlet editions that I own :-D
 

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