Bøger af Tom Conley

Deciphering maps as poetry, and poems as maps.

This 1992 book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing.This book studies the importance of typographic shapes in French Renaissance literature in the context of psychoanalysis and of the history of printed writing.

The contributors to this work explore the effects of imposed conformity by studying specific instances in which conflict of identity arise. Among the topics discussed are the 1937 Exposition Universelle; films dealing with Vichy France; and nation building under Francois Mitterand.

At a time when traditional film theory privileged the purely visual, Film Hieroglyphs introduced a new way of watching film-examining the ways in which writing bears on cinema. Author Tom Conley gives special consideration to the points (ruptures) at which story, image, and writing appear to be at odds with one another.

Illuminates the connection between literature, identity, and mapmaking in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century France..

How did Australia transform from a protected, insular country to an outwardly focused, globalised one? And why should it now resist a return to its protectionist past? Conley argues that the state has a responsibility to promote diversification of trade while regulating economic activity and ensuring that the benefits of growth are widely spread.