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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Peters, Jeffrey N. (1967-....)
Titre(s) : The written world [Texte imprimé] : space, literature, and the chorological imagination in early modern France / Jeffrey N. Peters
Publication : Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, cop. 2018.
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII, 260 pages) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Rethinking the Early Modern
Lien à la collection : Rethinking the Early Modern
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early
Modern France, Jeffrey N. Peters 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 what he calls a "chorological" approach
to artistic invention. The chorological imagination describes the poetic as a cosmological
event that gives location to--or, more accurately, in Plato's terms, receives--the
world as an object of thought. In analyses of well-known authors such as Corneille,
Molière, Racine, and Madame de Lafayette, Peters demonstrates that the apparent absence
of physical space in seventeenth-century literary depiction indicates a subtle engagement
with, rather than a rejection of, evolving principles of cosmological understanding.
Space is not absent in these works so much as transformed in keeping with contemporaneous
developments in early modern natural philosophy. The Written World will appeal to
philosophers of literature and literary theorists as well as scholars of early modern
Europe and historians of science and geography."--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Littérature et géographie
Genre ou forme : Littérature française -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780810136977. - ISBN 081013697X. - ISBN 9780810136984. - ISBN 0810136988. -
ISBN 9780810136991 (erroné). - ISBN 0810136996 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45514170n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45514170
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction. On poetic becoming in the seventeenth century -- ; Everything in its
right place : location and geography in Boileau's art poetique -- ; Lucretius and
cosmogenesis in La Fontaine and Moliere -- ; The invention of Pierre Corneille : place
and the new -- ; Racine and the geography of becoming -- ; Landscape and poetic event
in Honore d'Urfe's L'Astree -- ; The world written out : space and description from
Madeleine de Scudery to the Princesse de Cleves -- ; Conclusion. The chorological
early modern.
