Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language

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Analyzes the various translations of an obscure French poem to show the endless complexity of humans and their languages Table of Contents Introduction In Joy and in Sorrow Chapter 1 The Life in Rhymes of Clement Marot Chapter 2 For the Love of a Poem from Days Long, Long Gone Chapter 3 How Jolly the Lot of an Oligoglot Chapter 4 The Romantic Vision of Thought as Pattern Chapter 5 Sparking and Sparkling, Thanks to Constraints Chapter 6 The Subtle Art of Transculturation Chapter 7 The Nimble Medium-Hopping of Evanescent Essences Chapter 8 A Novel in Verse Chapter 9 A Vile Non-verse Chapter 10 On Words and their Magical Halos Chapter 11 Halos, Analogies, Spaces, and Blends Chapter 12 On the Conundrums of Cascading Translation Chapter 13 On Shey Translators and Their Crafty, Silent Art Chapter 14 On the Untranslatable Chapter 15 On the Ununderstandable Chapter 16 AI Aims, MT Claims, Sino-room Flames Chapter 17 In Praise of the Music of Language Conclusion Le Tombeau de ma rose Notes Bibliography Permissions and Acknowledgments Index