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Author:   Tom Conley
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
ISBN:  

9780816669646

ISBN 10:   0816669643
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 January 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents 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 Index

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Practicing a highly skillful and imaginative form of criticism, Tom Conley sets for himself the task of unveiling the birth of modern subjectivity in early modern representational artifacts such as maps and literary texts. His readings of textual and visual media are thoroughly gratifying and even exhilarating in their illuminating inventiveness, uncovering meanings unattainable by safer, traditional hermeneutic means. Jean-Claude Carron, UCLA

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

<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

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.

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