03037nam 2200709 a 450 991045997420332120200520144314.01-4529-4657-40-8166-7501-5(CKB)2670000000069884(EBL)648100(OCoLC)781310700(SSID)ssj0000468879(PQKBManifestationID)11272207(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468879(PQKBWorkID)10507891(PQKB)10794080(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177378(MiAaPQ)EBC648100(OCoLC)704267576(MdBmJHUP)muse29840(Au-PeEL)EBL648100(CaPaEBR)ebr10442226(CaONFJC)MIL525808(EXLCZ)99267000000006988420101004d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn errant eye[electronic resource] poetry and topography in early modern France /Tom ConleyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20111 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6965-1 0-8166-6964-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 tension, CoFrench poetry16th centuryHistory and criticismGeography in literatureCartography in literatureSpace in literaturePlace (Philosophy) in literatureCartographyFranceHistory16th centuryElectronic books.French poetryHistory and criticism.Geography in literature.Cartography in literature.Space in literature.Place (Philosophy) in literature.CartographyHistory841/.30932Conley Tom168200MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459974203321An errant eye2489566UNINA