{"product_id":"an-errant-eye-poetry-and-topography-in-early-modern-france-paperback-softback-9780816669653","title":"An Errant Eye; Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816669653","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAn Errant Eye\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePoetry and Topography in Early Modern France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTom Conley (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816669653\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 January 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.406 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAn Errant Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAn Errant Eye\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eThis tension, Conley demonstrates, cuts through literature and graphic matter of various shapes and forms-hybrid genres that include the comic novel, the emblem-book, the eclogue, sonnets, and the personal essay. \u003ci\u003eAn Errant Eye\u003c\/i\u003e differs from historical treatments of spatial invention through Conley's argument that the topographic sensibility is one in which the ocular faculty, vital to the description of locale, is endowed with tact and touch.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eDetailed close readings of Apian, Rabelais, Montaigne, and others empower the reader with a lively sense of the topographical impulse, deriving from Conley's own \"errant eye,\" which is singularly discerning in attentiveness to the ambiguities of charted territory, the contours of woodcut images, and the complex combinations of word and figure in French Renaissance poetry, emblem, and politics.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Snail's Eye\u003cbr\u003e An Event - Tact and Sight - A Topographer's Lens - Itineraries\u003cbr\u003e 1. Rabelais: Worlds Introjected\u003cbr\u003e An Encounter - A Meeting: An Event - Other Chapters, Other Realms -\u003cbr\u003e An Open End\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Apian Way\u003cbr\u003e A Book and its Fortunes - Topography and the Body - A Spider's Thread -\u003cbr\u003e A Map of the World and its Winds\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Landscape of Emblems: Corrozet and Holbein\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eL'Hécatomgraphie\u003c\/i\u003e - Hope in the Sphere - Emblems Compassed -\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSimulachres de la mort\u003c\/i\u003e - On Top of the World - The Plowman\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Poet in Relief: Maurice Scève\u003cbr\u003e Délie - Epigrams and Emblems - A Spider's Eye - From Délie to Saulsaye -\u003cbr\u003e The Country and the City\u003cbr\u003e 5. Ronsard in Conflict: A Writer out of Place\u003cbr\u003e A Graven Style - \u003ci\u003eCiel, air, \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e vents, plains \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e montz descouvers\u003c\/i\u003e - A Parting Shot - Ronsard Saved from Drowning - Mixed Fortune - Antarctic France\u003cbr\u003e 6. Montaigne and his Swallows\u003cbr\u003e A Form of Content - Belon's Birds - Region and Religion\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: A Tactile Eye\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570078445848,"sku":"9780816669653","price":17.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/an-errant-eye-poetry-and-topography-in-early-modern-france-paperback-softback-9780816669653","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}