{"product_id":"wave-forms-a-natural-syntax-for-rhythmic-languages-9780804745079","title":"Wave Forms: A Natural Syntax for Rhythmic Languages","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this daring book, the author proposes that artistic and literary forms can be understood as modulations of wave forms in the physical world. By the phrase natural syntax, he means that physical nature enters human communication literally by way of a transmitting wave frequency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis premise addresses a central question about symbolism in this century: How are our ideas symbolically related to physical reality? The author outlines a theory of communication in which nature is not reached by reference to an object; rather, nature is part of the message known only tacitly as the wavy carrier of a sign or signal. One doesn't refer \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e nature, even though one might be aiming to; one refers \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e nature as carrier vehicle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author demonstrates that a natural language of transmission has an inherent physical syntax of patterned wave forms, which can also be described as certain laws of form--a phrase used by D'Arcy Thompson, L. L. Whyte, Noam Chomsky, and Stephen Jay Gould. He describes a syntax inherent in natural languages that derives from the rhythmic form of a propelling wave. Instead of the laws of a wave's form, however, the author speaks of its elements of rhythmic composition, because rythmos means wave in Greek and because composition describes the creative process across the arts. In pursuing a philosophy of rhythmic composition, the author draws on cognitive science and semiotics. But he chiefly employs symmetry theory to describe the forms of art, and especially the patterns of poetry, as structures built upon the natural syntax of wave forms. Natural syntax, it turns out, follows a fascinating group of symmetry transformations that derive from wave forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James H. Bunn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/05\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.64h x 6.42w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804745079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames H. Bunn is Professor of English at the University of Buffalo, where he is also a member of the Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dimensionality of Signs, Tools, and Models.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40141670776947,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_942ad1bd-3924-44ac-96e6-57ba18b5e2c0.jpg?v=1654521187","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/wave-forms-a-natural-syntax-for-rhythmic-languages-9780804745079","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}