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The self-made map : cartographic writing in early modern France /
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
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
University of Minnesota Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- 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 ©¡ 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.