The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 45, Band 45) - Softcover
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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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Harvard University Department of Comparative Literature, 1999
ISBN 10: 067483951X
ISBN 13: 9780674839519
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Zustand: as new. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. Paperback. [xii], 196 pp. : illustrations ; 24 cm. (Harvard studies in comparative literature, 45). - This work unfolds the ides of nothing out of a Titian painting of Danae and the shower of gold. The philological and pictorial argument links, across several languages, such seemingly disparate concepts as money, coins, mothers, subjects, courtiers, prostitutes, ciphers, codes and the codex form. The 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 in both mathematics and literature. Along the way it makes points about the orthography and editing of early modern texts, and about the material affinities of these texts with painting and minting. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780674839519. Keywords : HISTORY, islam. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 282649
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