An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France

by Tom Conley

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816669651
• ISBN13: 9780816669653
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"