The Story of 0: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance (HARVARD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE) - Hardcover

Jaffe, Michele

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674839501 ISBN 13: 9780674839502

Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR, 1999

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This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Danaë and the shower of gold. Jaffee's philological and pictorial argument links, across several languages, such seemingly disparate concepts as money, coins, mothers (through the mint's matrix), subjects, courtiers, prostitutes (through etymologies that join minting, standing-under, standing-for), ciphers, codes, and the codex form. This ambitious book is a cultural history of the "cipher" zero as code and as nothing, as the absence of value and the place-holder constructing value. It traces the wide-ranging implications of "nothing"--not only in mathematics but also in literature. Along the way, it makes important points about the orthography and editing of early modern texts, and about the material affinities of these texts with painting and minting.

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Michele Jaffe is the author of the novel The Stargazer and other fiction for adults and young adults.

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• Verlag: HARVARD UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674839501
• ISBN 13: 9780674839502
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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