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.
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Author: Tom Conley
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.358kg
ISBN: 9780816669653
ISBN 10: 0816669651
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 10 January 2011
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<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 Information
Tom 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.
