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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 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 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. An Errant Eye 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.
Detailed 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.
Contents
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Snail's Eye
An Event - Tact and Sight - A Topographer's Lens - Itineraries
1. Rabelais: Worlds Introjected
An Encounter - A Meeting: An Event - Other Chapters, Other Realms -
An Open End
2. The Apian Way
A Book and its Fortunes - Topography and the Body - A Spider's Thread -
A Map of the World and its Winds
3. A Landscape of Emblems: Corrozet and Holbein
L'Hécatomgraphie - Hope in the Sphere - Emblems Compassed -
Simulachres de la mort - On Top of the World - The Plowman
4. A Poet in Relief: Maurice Scève
Délie - Epigrams and Emblems - A Spider's Eye - From Délie to Saulsaye -
The Country and the City
5. Ronsard in Conflict: A Writer out of Place
A Graven Style - Ciel, air, & vents, plains & montz descouvers - A Parting Shot - Ronsard Saved from Drowning - Mixed Fortune - Antarctic France
6. Montaigne and his Swallows
A Form of Content - Belon's Birds - Region and Religion
Conclusion: A Tactile Eye
Notes
Works Cited
Index
