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Bezig met laden... Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language (1997)door Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Video review here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvJzIPcD-g ( ) In Disparagement of the Monotony of Language Dearest Doug, Please don't bug Us with rhyme One more time. Reading through Sev'nty-two Poems built on "Ma Mignonne" Is real tough. Nuff's enough! And no line For Will Quine When you ask If the task To create A translate Can be done? It's no fun, Also rude, To conclude Douglas Hof- Stadter's off Of his game. All the same, We can see G-E-B This is not. Thanks a lot! A really fun book and, having read all/most of Hofstadter's books, I'm still partial to GEB. All of these books are fascinating in their own way: this one with all the poems (although, there does come a point where you feel like the poems are just baggage he uses because he spent so much time on them). None of them capture the magic of the math theorems he went into with GEB Still, he's one of my favorite authors (and, after seeing the care he puts into the aesthetics of his book, I wish other authors had his drive) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Not Merely a set of translations of one poem, Le Ton beau de Marot is an autobiographical essay, a love letter to the French language, a series of musings on life, loss, and death, a sweet bouquet of stirring poetry - but most of all, it celebrates the limitless creativity fired by a passion for the music of words. Dozens of literary themes and creations are woven into the picture, including Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Dante's Inferno, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
Villon's ballades, Nabokov's essays, Georges Perec's La disparition, Vikram Seth's Golden Gate. Horace's odes, and more. Rife with stunning form-content interplay, crammed with creative linguistic experiments yet always crystal-clear, this book is meant not only for lovers of literature, but also for people who wish to be brought into contact with current ideas about how creativity works, and who wish to see how today's computational models of language and thought stack.
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