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Autore: | Conley Tom |
Titolo: | The self-made map : cartographic writing in early modern France / / Tom Conley |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1996 |
©1996 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina: | 840.9/003 |
840.9003 | |
Soggetto topico: | Cartography - France - History - 16th century |
Maps in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Franco-Burgundian Backgrounds: Some Figural Relations with Space; 2. The Letter and the Grid: Geoffroy Tory; 3. Oronce Finé: A Well-Rounded Signature; 4. Words à la Carte: A Rabelaisian Map; 5. An Insular Moment: From Cosmography to Ethnography; 6. An Atlas Evolves: Maurice Bouguereau, Le théâtre françoys; 7. Montaigne: A Political Geography of the Self; 8. La Popelinière and Descartes: Signatures in Perspective; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that ""a new cartographic impulse"" during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The self-made map |
ISBN: | 0-8166-8692-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784369703321 |
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