Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship b... more Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to our shared planet. Opening up a rich archive of literary and non-literary texts produced by Montaigne and his contemporaries, this volume foregrounds not how ecocriticism renews our understanding of a literary corpus, but rather how that corpus causes us to re-think or to nuance contemporary eco-theory. The sparsely bilingual title (an acute accent on écologies) denotes the primary task at hand: to pluralize (i.e. de-Anglophone-ize) the Environmental Humanities. Featuring established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, Early Modern Écologies opens up new dialogues betwe...
France, liberty had ancient and strong roots, while despotism was modern. Not everyone agreed wit... more France, liberty had ancient and strong roots, while despotism was modern. Not everyone agreed with this interpretation. It was the view of a moderate thinker whose ideas were too revolutionary for ultra-conservatives and too aristocratic for those on the left. This critical edition of Staël’s Considérations confirms its status as a fundamental work that belongs in the pantheon of French liberalism. It has much to teach us about the difficult apprenticeship of liberty and the importance of political moderation, two fundamental principles at the heart of Staël’s political philosophy.
Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationshi... more Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to our shared planet. Opening up a rich archive of literary and non-literary texts produced by Montaigne and his contemporaries, this volume foregrounds not how ecocriticism renews our understanding of a literary corpus, but rather how that corpus causes us to re-think or to nuance contemporary eco-theory. The sparsely bilingual title (an acute accent on écologies) denotes the primary task at hand: to pluralize (i.e. de-Anglophone-ize) the Environmental Humanities. Featuring established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, Early Modern Écologies opens up new dialogues be...
The article explores tensions between cosmography and topography in maps and writings of Oronce F... more The article explores tensions between cosmography and topography in maps and writings of Oronce Fine (1492-1555). Editor and illustrator of two editions of De sphaera of Johannes Sacrobosco (1517 and 1527), author of De sphaera mundi (1542), Fine composed treatises of cosmography and mathematics in French. Affiliating with typographer-publisher Michel de Vasconsan, he published a vernacular edition titled L’esphere du monde. Headed by a poem celebrating the virtue of mathematics, the work is a point of reference in both the history of treatises on cosmography and the history of the illustrated book. The 1551 edition of L’esphere du monde transcribes an ornate manuscript of the same title that Fine presented to Henri II in 1549. Close reading of the two documents reveals that in their progression they tilt away from cosmography to geography, and that the French nation and its provinces become increasingly manifest. In the manuscript the monarch is reminded of the extent of his kingdo...
Page 1. parallax, 2000, vol. 6, no. 1, 92–110 Inklines and Lifelines: About 'La coche' ... more Page 1. parallax, 2000, vol. 6, no. 1, 92–110 Inklines and Lifelines: About 'La coche' (1547) by Marguerite de Navarre Tom Conley In his canonical essays on Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin remarks that the success of a translation depends on a strong rendering of visual images. ...
The essay that follows® gures in a broader inquiry concerning cartographical representations of s... more The essay that follows® gures in a broader inquiry concerning cartographical representations of space within literature and poetry. The aim is neither to show how maps are as creatively mendacious as literature might be, nor how the latter exploits for its own ...
Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship b... more Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to our shared planet. Opening up a rich archive of literary and non-literary texts produced by Montaigne and his contemporaries, this volume foregrounds not how ecocriticism renews our understanding of a literary corpus, but rather how that corpus causes us to re-think or to nuance contemporary eco-theory. The sparsely bilingual title (an acute accent on écologies) denotes the primary task at hand: to pluralize (i.e. de-Anglophone-ize) the Environmental Humanities. Featuring established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, Early Modern Écologies opens up new dialogues betwe...
France, liberty had ancient and strong roots, while despotism was modern. Not everyone agreed wit... more France, liberty had ancient and strong roots, while despotism was modern. Not everyone agreed with this interpretation. It was the view of a moderate thinker whose ideas were too revolutionary for ultra-conservatives and too aristocratic for those on the left. This critical edition of Staël’s Considérations confirms its status as a fundamental work that belongs in the pantheon of French liberalism. It has much to teach us about the difficult apprenticeship of liberty and the importance of political moderation, two fundamental principles at the heart of Staël’s political philosophy.
Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationshi... more Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of humans as being ‘masters and possessors of Nature’ in the seventeenth century, the writers taken up in this volume arguably demonstrated a more complex and urgent understanding of the human relationship to our shared planet. Opening up a rich archive of literary and non-literary texts produced by Montaigne and his contemporaries, this volume foregrounds not how ecocriticism renews our understanding of a literary corpus, but rather how that corpus causes us to re-think or to nuance contemporary eco-theory. The sparsely bilingual title (an acute accent on écologies) denotes the primary task at hand: to pluralize (i.e. de-Anglophone-ize) the Environmental Humanities. Featuring established and emerging scholars from Europe and the United States, Early Modern Écologies opens up new dialogues be...
The article explores tensions between cosmography and topography in maps and writings of Oronce F... more The article explores tensions between cosmography and topography in maps and writings of Oronce Fine (1492-1555). Editor and illustrator of two editions of De sphaera of Johannes Sacrobosco (1517 and 1527), author of De sphaera mundi (1542), Fine composed treatises of cosmography and mathematics in French. Affiliating with typographer-publisher Michel de Vasconsan, he published a vernacular edition titled L’esphere du monde. Headed by a poem celebrating the virtue of mathematics, the work is a point of reference in both the history of treatises on cosmography and the history of the illustrated book. The 1551 edition of L’esphere du monde transcribes an ornate manuscript of the same title that Fine presented to Henri II in 1549. Close reading of the two documents reveals that in their progression they tilt away from cosmography to geography, and that the French nation and its provinces become increasingly manifest. In the manuscript the monarch is reminded of the extent of his kingdo...
Page 1. parallax, 2000, vol. 6, no. 1, 92–110 Inklines and Lifelines: About 'La coche' ... more Page 1. parallax, 2000, vol. 6, no. 1, 92–110 Inklines and Lifelines: About 'La coche' (1547) by Marguerite de Navarre Tom Conley In his canonical essays on Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin remarks that the success of a translation depends on a strong rendering of visual images. ...
The essay that follows® gures in a broader inquiry concerning cartographical representations of s... more The essay that follows® gures in a broader inquiry concerning cartographical representations of space within literature and poetry. The aim is neither to show how maps are as creatively mendacious as literature might be, nor how the latter exploits for its own ...
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