An errant eye : poetry and topography in early modern France /

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: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press 2011.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.cttttwtt
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 Scève
  • Ronsard in conflict: a writer out of place
  • Montaigne and his swallows
  • Conclusion: a tactile eye.