AN Errant Eye : Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conley, Tom
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Space in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Geography in literature.
French poetry.
Cartography in literature.
Cartography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
POETRY > Continental European.
Cartographie > France > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Lieu (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Espace dans la litterature.
Cartographie dans la litterature.
Geographie dans la litterature.
Poesie française > 16e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Cartography > France > History > 16th century.
French poetry > 16th century > History and criticism.
France.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a snail's eye
  • Rabelais: worlds introjected
  • The Apian way
  • A landscape of emblems: Corrozet and Holbein
  • A poet in relief: Maurice Sceve
  • Ronsard in conflict: a writer out of place
  • Montaigne and his swallows
  • Conclusion: a tactile eye.

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