Urban Poetics in the French Renaissance
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Author_Elisabeth Hodges
cartographic representation
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Christine Buci Glucksmann
City View
Colette Beaune
conley
corrozet
Danse Macabre
De Tournes
denis
Denis Janot
Des Cannibales
Des Coches
Early Modern
Early Modern French Writing
early modern literature
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French cultural history
gilles
Gilles Corrozet
janot
Je Ne
jean
Jean De Tournes
La Coche
Le Coq
literary urban space
michel
Michel De Montaigne
montaigne
Recherches De La France
Renaissance Cosmographers
Renaissance narrative identity
self and place
Son Aise
subjectivity theory
tom
tournes
Town Views
Urban Poetics
Villon's Testament
Villon’s Testament
Willow Grove
Woodcut Engravings
Product details
- ISBN 9780754662068
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The 'city view' forms the jumping off point for this innovative study, which explores how the concept of the city relates to the idea of the self in early modern French narratives. At a time when print culture, cartography and literature emerged and developed together, the 'city view', a picture or topographic image of a city, became one of the most distinctive and popular products of the early modern period. Through a construct she calls 'urban poetics', Elisabeth Hodges draws out the relationship between the city and the self, showing the impact of the city in cultural production to be so profound that it cannot be extricated from what we know by the name of 'subjectivity'. Each chapter of the book brings focus to a crucial text that features descriptions of the self in the city (by the writers Villon, Corrozet, Scève, and Montaigne) and investigate how representations of urban experience prepared the way for the emergence of the autonomous subject. Charting a course between cartography, literary studies, and cultural history, this study opens new vistas on some of the period's defining problems: the book, the subject, the city.
Elisabeth Hodges is Associate Professor of French at Miami University of Ohio, USA.
