| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: a snail's eye -- Rabelais: worlds introjected -- The Apian way -- A landscape of emblems: Corrozet and Holbein -- A poet in relief: Maurice Scève -- Ronsard in conflict: a writer out of place -- Montaigne and his swallows -- Conclusion: a tactile eye |
| Summary |
An Errant Eye studies how topography, the art of describing local space and place, developed literary and visual form in early modern France. Arguing for a "new poetics of space" ranging throughout French Renaissance poetry, prose, and cartography, Tom Conley performs dazzling readings of maps, woodcuts, and poems to plot a topographical shift in the late Renaissance in which space, subjectivity, and politics fall into crisis. He charts the paradox of a period whose demarcation of national space through cartography is rendered unstable by an ambient world of printed writing. This ten |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French poetry -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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Geography in literature.
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Cartography in literature.
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Space in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Cartography -- France -- History -- 16th century
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
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Cartography
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Cartography in literature
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French poetry
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Geography in literature
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Place (Philosophy) in literature
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Space in literature
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816675012 |
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0816675015 |
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9781452946573 |
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1452946574 |
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