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Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language Hardcover - 2005

by Arielle Saiber


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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.

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Space is part of language.

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  • Title Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language
  • Author Arielle Saiber
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, UK
  • Date January 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780754633211 / 0754633217
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004008971
  • Dewey Decimal Code 822.309

About the author

Arielle Saiber, Assistant Professor of Italian Literature, Bowdoin College, USA.
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