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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conley, Tom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French poetry--16th century--History and criticism.

French poetry.

Geography in literature.

Cartography in literature.

Space in literature.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Cartography--France--History--16th century.

Cartography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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 tension, Co

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4657-4

0-8166-7501-5

OCLC:

781310700