Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language

Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language
Author: Arielle Saiber
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2017-03-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781351933674

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Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what Bruno believed to be an infinite universe-its qualities and vicissitudes-into the world of language, Bruno forged a system of 'figurative' vocabularies: number, form, space, and word. This verbal and symbolic system in which geometric figures are seen to underlie rhetorical figures, is what Saiber calls 'geometric rhetoric.' Through analysis of Bruno's writings, Saiber shows how Bruno's writing necessitates a crafting of space, and is, in essence, a lexicon of spatial concepts. This study constitutes an original contribution both to scholarship on Bruno and to the fields of early modern scientific and literary studies. It also addresses the broader question of what role geometry has in the formation of any language and literature of any place and time.

The Ash Wednesday Supper

The Ash Wednesday Supper
Author: Giordano Bruno
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-03-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783112414965

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On the Heroic Frenzies

On the Heroic Frenzies
Author: Giordano Bruno
Publsiher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2013-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781442643895

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This vibrant bilingual edition, annotated by celebrated Bruno scholar Ingrid D. Rowland, features the text in its original Italian alongside an elegant, accurate English translation.

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Author: Giordano Bruno
Publsiher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781496208156

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The itinerant Neoplatonic scholar Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), one of the most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake for heresy by the Inquisition in Rome on Ash Wednesday in 1600. The primary evidence against him was the book Spaccio de la bestia trionfante, a daring indictment of the church that abounded in references to classical Greek mythology, Egyptian religion (especially the worship of Isis), Hermeticism, magic, and astrology. The author of more than sixty works on mathematics, science, ethics, philosophy, metaphysics, the art of memory, and esoteric mysticism, Bruno had a profound impact on Western thought.

Joyce and Geometry

Joyce and Geometry
Author: Ciaran McMorran
Publsiher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-01-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780813057392

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In a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry, nineteenth-century mathematicians developed new systems that featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Through close readings of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Joyce’s notebooks, Ciaran McMorran demonstrates that Joyce’s experiments with nonlinearity stem from a fascination with these new mathematical concepts. He highlights the maze-like patterns traced by Joyce’s characters as they wander Dublin’s streets; he explores recurring motifs such as the topography of the Earth’s curved surface and time as the fourth dimension of space; and he investigates in detail the enormous influence of Giordano Bruno, Henri Poincaré, and other writers who were critical of the Euclidean tradition. Arguing that Joyce’s obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works encapsulates a modern crisis between geometric and linguistic modes of representation, McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce’s work that has not been fully explored until now. A volume in the Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles

On Magic

On Magic
Author: Scott Gosnell,Giordano Bruno
Publsiher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 198182636X

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Published only posthumously, Giordano Bruno

The Perfect Genre Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy

The Perfect Genre  Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy
Author: Kristin Phillips-Court
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781351884389

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Proposing an original and important re-conceptualization of Italian Renaissance drama, Kristin Phillips-Court here explores how the intertextuality of major works of Italian dramatic literature is not only poetic but also figurative. She argues that not only did the painterly gaze, so prevalent in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century devotional art, portraiture, and visual allegory, inform humanistic theories, practices and themes, it also led prominent Italian intellectuals to write visually evocative works of dramatic literature whose topical plots and structures provide only a fraction of their cultural significance. Through a combination of interpretive literary criticism, art historical analysis and cultural and intellectual historiography, Phillips-Court offers detailed readings of individual plays juxtaposed with specific developments and achievements in the realm of painting. Revealing more than historical connections between artists and poets such as Tasso and Giorgione, Mantegna and Trissino, Michelangelo and Caro, or Bruno and Caravaggio, the author locates the history of Renaissance art and drama securely within the history of ideas. She provides us with a story about the emergence and eventual disintegration of Italian Renaissance drama as a rigorously philosophical and empirical form. Considering rhetorical, philosophical, ethical, religious, political-ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of each of the plays she treats, Kristin Phillips-Court draws our attention to the intermedial conversation between the theater and painting in a culture famously dominated by art. Her integrated analysis of visual and dramatic works brings to light how the lines and verses of the text reveal an ongoing dialogue with visual art that was far richer and more intellectually engaged than we might reconstruct from stage diagrams and painted backdrops.

Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno

Magic and Memory in Giordano Bruno
Author: Manuel Mertens
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Magic
ISBN: 9004358927

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Manuel Mertens guides the reader through Bruno's mnemonic palaces, and shows how these fascinating intellectual constructions of the famous heretic philosopher can be called magical.