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The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-For-Nothings in the Renaissance (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)
The Story of O Prostitutes and Other GoodForNothings in the Renaissance - Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature
Author: Michele Jaffe
This work unfolds the idea of "nothing" out of a Titian painting of Dana 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-un...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674839502
ISBN-10: 0674839501
Publication Date: 9/30/1999
Pages: 196
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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