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



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Autore: Conley Tom Visualizza persona
Titolo: An errant eye [[electronic resource] ] : poetry and topography in early modern France / / Tom Conley Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4657-4
0-8166-7501-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785694603321
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