Mapping Discord: Allegorical Cartography in Early Modern French WritingUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 286 pages Mapping Discord examines a series of allegorical maps published in France during the seventeenth century that cast in spatial terms a number of heated aesthetic and social debates. It discusses the convergence of map-making and literary creation in the context of early modern cartographic practice, and demonstrates that the unique language of allegorical cartography raises important theoretical questions about the relations between rationalist discourses of science and the figural designs of imaginative writing. In detailed analyses of the imaginary maps that appeared in seventeenth-century novels and stories, as well as of maps, atlases, and geographic treatises produced by professional scholars and engineers of the period, Mapping Discord considers the ideological structure and uses of cartographic language, and argues that allegorical maps have much to tell us about the potential capacity of every map to operate as a visual metaphor for power. Illustrated, Jeffrey N. Peters is Associate Professor of French at the University of Kentucky. |
Table des matières
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From Cosmography to Cartography Power and Representation in Early Modern French Maps | 45 |
Writing Space | 48 |
Champlain in Québec | 55 |
Abstraction as Metaphor | 67 |
François dAubignacs History of Time | 126 |
Boileau and the Disciplinary Map | 140 |
Eloquence at the Boundaries Academic Cartography in Furetiere and Sorel | 147 |
In Defense of Eloquence | 151 |
Sorel Responds | 162 |
The Boundaries of Allegory | 170 |
Mapping the Ancients and the Moderns On the Discursive History of Allegorical Cartography | 177 |
The Shield as Globe | 180 |
Monarchy and the Representation of Space | 74 |
Mapping Nonsense Meaning and Transgression in Scudérys Carte de Tendre | 83 |
The Space of Meaning | 88 |
Mapping Tendre | 93 |
The Conversation as Map | 100 |
Allergy and Subversion | 103 |
Terrae incognitae | 114 |
The Rape of Tendre and the Violence of Mapping | 117 |
Rewrting Tendre | 118 |
The Absent Center | 189 |
In the Temple of Saturn | 197 |
Callières and the Persistence of Rhetoric | 209 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Notes | 218 |
Bibliography | 261 |
Index | 279 |
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Page 189 - Science] is perhaps best summarized by a famous and often-quoted passage: in the night of thick darkness enveloping the earliest antiquity, so remote from ourselves, there shines the eternal and never failing light of truth beyond all question: that the world of civil society has certainly been made by men, and that its principles are therefore to be found within the modifications of our own human mind.
Page 216 - The omnipresence of power: not because it has the privilege of consolidating everything under its invincible unity, but because it is produced from one moment to the next, at every point, or rather in every relation from one point to another. Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere. And "Power...
Page 12 - Ainsi ces anciennes cités qui, n'ayant été au commencement que des bourgades, sont devenues par succession de temps de grandes villes, sont ordinairement si mal compassées, au prix de ces places régulières qu'un ingénieur trace à sa fantaisie dans une plaine, qu'encore que, considérant...
Page 123 - Whereas the symbol postulates the possibility of an identity or identification, allegory designates primarily a distance in relation to its own origin, and, renouncing the nostalgia and the desire to coincide, it establishes its language in the void of this temporal difference.
Page 211 - J'étais alors en Allemagne , où l'occasion des guerres qui n'y sont pas encore finies m'avait appelé ; et comme je retournais du couronnement de l'empereur vers l'armée , le commencement de l'hiver m'arrêta en un quartier où , ne trouvant aucune conversation qui me divertît, et n'ayant d'ailleurs, par bonheur, aucuns soins ni passions qui me troublassent , je demeurais tout le jour enfermé seul dans un poêle, où j'avais tout le loisir de m'entretenir de mes pensées.
Page 189 - Whoever reflects on this cannot but marvel that the philosophers should have bent all their energies to the study of the world of nature, which, since God made it, He alone knows; and that they should have neglected the study of the world of nations, or civil world, which, since men had made it, men could come to know.
Page 209 - Il est bon de savoir quelque chose des mœurs de divers peuples, afin de juger des nôtres plus sainement, et que nous ne pensions pas que tout ce qui est contre nos modes soit ridicule et contre raison , ainsi qu'ont coutume de faire ceux qui n'ont rien vu.