The protean ptyx: nonsense, non-translation and word magic in Mallarme's 'Sonnet en yx'
This chapter presents an extensive analysis of questions of translation and non-translation through the focal point of Stéphane Mallarmé’s ‘Sonnet en yx’. It traces early responses to this poem that highlighted the challenge to interpretation posed by ‘ptyx’: was this a nonsensical neologism or an u...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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