An errant eye [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and topography in early modern France / / Tom Conley

• Autore: Conley Tom
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 841/.30932
• Soggetto topico: French poetry - 16th century - History and criticism; Geography in literature; Cartography in literature; Space in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Cartography - France - History - 16th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, Co
• Titolo autorizzato: An errant eye
• ISBN: 1-4529-4657-4; 0-8166-7501-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828869903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II