Talk:Royall Tyler (academic)

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Why in the world is there information about a Richard Davis on Royall Tyler's encyclopedia entry? Fish in the Water 13:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I asked about this in the Village Pump technical discussion page, and the response I got was that it must have been a cache error. -- Kyok o  17:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Why is Tyler's translation better? best?
If The Tale of Genji, like The Lord of the Rings, is not about a narrative arc or the growth of the characters, but about a long series of episodes in which the essential nature of the characters is demonstrated again and again (and again), then it could be argued that Tyler's careful fidelity to the Murasaki text allows that serial demonstration to be made in the writer's own terms. An interesting analytical concept I post here for comment ... or alternately, as a reminder to return to this notion when the article about Tyler has been more fully developed. --Tenmei (talk) 02:09, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

A section on which translation is better would inevitably be POV, and I'm glad to see that nobody has tried to add such a section. (On the other hand, if you want to know what Tyler's translation of Geni is really like, see the one-star review by "Christopher" at Amazon.com, headed: "Avoid this Translation Like the Plague .") — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.110.216.193 (talk) 09:35, 3 January 2013 (UTC)