Format:
1 online resource (388 pages)
ISBN:
9780816686926
Content:
In this wide-ranging and fascinating work, Tom Conley demonstrates that "a new cartographic impulse" during the French Renaissance gave rise to a new sense of self, one defined in part by the relationship of self and space.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cartographic Writing -- The Relation to the Unknown -- The Perspectival Object -- Pictograms -- The Signature -- Approaches -- 1. Franco-Burgundian Backgrounds: Some Figural Relations with Space -- A French Model: Jean Fouquet -- Wit and Rivalry: The Portrait of Guillaume Juvénal des Oursins -- A Nascent Grid of Narrative -- A Poetic Map: Jean Molinet -- 2. The Letter and the Grid: Geoffroy Tory -- Three Allegories -- A Fourth Allegory: Architecture, Letter, and Nation -- Betrayals of Diagram and Text -- A Well-Joined Marquetry -- A Cartography of the Letter -- 3. Oronce Finé: A Well-Rounded Signature -- A Craftsman's Adolescence -- The Finé Animal: A Face and a Strategy (Voyage à la terre sainte) -- From Signature to Self-Portrait -- From Portrait to Self-Made Identity: The Protomathesis -- The Heart of the World: The Cordiform Maps -- Gallia and the Topographical Map in Le sphère du monde -- The Analogical Style -- 4. Words à la Carte: A Rabelaisian Map -- Beginnings -- Tourism -- The Itinerary: Notable Places -- Encounters of the First Kind -- Reprieve: Spaces to Listen -- A City Named Parr rys -- Words à la Carte -- Rabelais and the "Cordiform" Text -- 5. An Insular Moment: From Cosmography to Ethnography -- A Topography of the Face -- The Isolario and Cosmography -- André Thevet's Staging of Alterity -- Some Fortunes of La cosmographie universelle and Its Ethnography -- 6. An Atlas Evolves: Maurice Bouguereau, Le théâtre françoys -- The Idea of a National Atlas -- Iconography: The Title Page and Opening Pages -- Bouguereau's Maps -- Maps and Texts Compared: Nicolaï and Symeone -- An Atlas of Rivers: Chorography, Potamography, and the Image of a Nation -- The Signature: Bouguereau's Vanishing Point -- 7. Montaigne: A Political Geography of the Self.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816627004
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Conley, Tom, 1943 - The self-made map Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.] : Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996 ISBN 9780816627004
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816674480
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0816627002
Additional Edition:
Print version Self-Made Map : Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Kartografie
;
Geschichte
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