The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France

ISBN-13: 9780810136977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 272 str.

Jeffrey N. Peters

Opis

Argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating principle of literary creation. By way of an innovative reading of chora, a concept developed by Plato in the Timaeus and often construed by philosophical tradition as ""space"", Peters shows that canonical literary works of the French seventeenth century are guided by a ""chorological"" approach to artistic invention.