Les Voies Cartographiques Renaissance French Mapmakers Rabelais Montaigne

Description: Martine SauretLes voies cartographiques : à propos des influences des cartographes sur les écrivains français des XVe et XVIe sièclesE. Mellen PressLewiston, N.Y., 2005 269 pp. 8vo, cloth. Cloth a touch bubbled, else a very good, clean copy. Studies in French civilization, v. 34. In her study of Renaissance maps and written texts, Martine Sauret artfully examines the two intersecting types of representation as transcriptions of voice and of the visual ("voix/voies"), showing how they "speak" and lead readers through the formation of the self and the social in the developing French nation. Proceeding from typographers and cartographers Geoffroy Tory and Oronce Fine to Rabelais and Montaigne, she examines points of conjunction as well as revealing problematic areas of contact between the image and the letter. She looks at how the mapmakers, typographers and writers reprised, manipulated and added to medieval structures and elements in a new exploration of the unknown, through their inclusion of images of body parts and personal details creating a presence of self situated in the changing social context. What makes the work especially attractive may indeed be found in the spatial and historical tensions that inspire her close and sustained readings of Rabelais, Peter Apian, and Montaigne. Her chapters on Montaigne, in particular, give a nuanced reading of the diverse ways in which (cartographic) space is represented and creatively plays within the author's texts (certain of his Essais and his Journal de voyage), including how they perform a social critique in their discovery and appreciation of the "other" and of self. This is a book that readers of contemporary theory of the visual as well as scholars of Renaissance literature and social history will appreciate and learn from." - Dr. Cynthia Running-Johnson, Western Michigan University

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