Re: Chushingura question

Hi, everybody.

I've been reading all your posts for months.
Thanks for your data (about Nobunaga's sons,
and a lot of bibliography, and that particularly
interesting bit about modern ships' names...
and so on...).

I was wondering if you could help me with this
nagging question about old translations. I can't
remember nor find Mitford's tales right now
(they must be somewhere around here...) and I
need to check what kind of prose he used in his
retelling of the 47 Ronin story. Was it exotic?
Folkloric? Did he try to get across the meaning
to the anglophone audience in any special way?

Any suggestion will do. You know, this has
nothing to do with scholarly research. It's a
silly bet I want to win in the next few hours.

Thanks again.

Saludos,
diego d.

Well I'm no expert on stylistics but it seems to to be the formal writing
style of a 19th century British writer. A bit flourishy with lots of
adjectives, similiar to Murdochs history. It wasn't a translation but a
retelling.

----- Original Message -----
From: Diego M. Dell'Era <dellerad@...>
To: <samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 1:13 AM
Subject: re: [samuraihistory] Chushingura question


> Hi, everybody.
>
> I've been reading all your posts for months.
> Thanks for your data (about Nobunaga's sons,
> and a lot of bibliography, and that particularly
> interesting bit about modern ships' names...
> and so on...).
>
> I was wondering if you could help me with this
> nagging question about old translations. I can't
> remember nor find Mitford's tales right now
> (they must be somewhere around here...) and I
> need to check what kind of prose he used in his
> retelling of the 47 Ronin story. Was it exotic?
> Folkloric? Did he try to get across the meaning
> to the anglophone audience in any special way?
>
> Any suggestion will do. You know, this has
> nothing to do with scholarly research. It's a
> silly bet I want to win in the next few hours.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Saludos,
> diego d.
>
>
>
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Hi

I bought 'Tales of Old japan' by Mitford last week
from www.amazon.co.uk.

Paul


--- "Diego M. Dell'Era"
wrote:

---

Hi, everybody.



I've been reading all your posts for months.

Thanks for your data (about Nobunaga's sons,

and a lot of bibliography, and that particularly

interesting bit about modern ships' names...

and so on...).



I was wondering if you could help me with this

nagging question about old translations. I can't

remember nor find Mitford's tales right now

(they must be somewhere around here...) and I

need to check what kind of prose he used in his

retelling of the 47 Ronin story. Was it exotic?

Folkloric? Did he try to get across the meaning

to the anglophone audience in any special way?



Any suggestion will do. You know, this has

nothing to do with scholarly research. It's a

silly bet I want to win in the next few hours.



Thanks again.



Saludos,

diego d.

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