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Title:
An errant eye : poetry and topography in early modern France
Author:
Conley, Tom.
ISBN:
9780816675012
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps
Abstract:
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. This ten.
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