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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tom ConleyPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.358kg ISBN: 9780816669653ISBN 10: 0816669651 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 10 January 2011 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: A Snail's Eye An Event - Tact and Sight - A Topographer's Lens - Itineraries 1. Rabelais: Worlds Introjected An Encounter - A Meeting: An Event - Other Chapters, Other Realms - An Open End 2. The Apian Way A Book and its Fortunes - Topography and the Body - A Spider's Thread - A Map of the World and its Winds 3. A Landscape of Emblems: Corrozet and Holbein L'Hécatomgraphie - Hope in the Sphere - Emblems Compassed - Simulachres de la mort - On Top of the World - The Plowman 4. A Poet in Relief: Maurice Scève Délie - Epigrams and Emblems - A Spider's Eye - From Délie to Saulsaye - The Country and the City 5. Ronsard in Conflict: A Writer out of Place A Graven Style - Ciel, air, & vents, plains & montz descouvers - A Parting Shot - Ronsard Saved from Drowning - Mixed Fortune - Antarctic France 6. Montaigne and his Swallows A Form of Content - Belon's Birds - Region and Religion Conclusion: A Tactile Eye Notes Works Cited IndexReviews<p> In An Errant Eye , Tom Conley slows down our encounter with the Renaissance to a snail's pace. At this tactical speed he leads us across a series of local topographies--topographies of print created by Rabelais, Montaigne, the cosmographer Peter Apian, and other writers and poets of the sixteenth century who felt their way through a radically unstable world. Conley has once again given us a brilliant exploration of the spatial imagination of the French Renaissance, one whose impact will be felt across the disciplines. --Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota In An Errant Eye, Tom Conley slows down our encounter with the Renaissance to a snail's pace. At this tactical speed he leads us across a series of local topographies--topographies of print created by Rabelais, Montaigne, the cosmographer Peter Apian, and other writers and poets of the sixteenth century who felt their way through a radically unstable world. Conley has once again given us a brilliant exploration of the spatial imagination of the French Renaissance, one whose impact will be felt across the disciplines. --Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota In An Errant Eye, Tom Conley slows down our encounter with the Renaissance to a snail s pace. At this tactical speed he leads us across a series of local topographies topographies of print created by Rabelais, Montaigne, the cosmographer Peter Apian, and other writers and poets of the sixteenth century who felt their way through a radically unstable world. Conley has once again given us a brilliant exploration of the spatial imagination of the French Renaissance, one whose impact will be felt across the disciplines. Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota In An Errant Eye , Tom Conley slows down our encounter with the Renaissance to a snail's pace. At this tactical speed he leads us across a series of local topographies--topographies of print created by Rabelais, Montaigne, the cosmographer Peter Apian, and other writers and poets of the sixteenth century who felt their way through a radically unstable world. Conley has once again given us a brilliant exploration of the spatial imagination of the French Renaissance, one whose impact will be felt across the disciplines. --Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota Author InformationTom Conley is Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and chair of visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. Among his books are Cartographic Cinema (2007) and Film Hieroglyphs (2006), both published by Minnesota. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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