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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Rethinking the Early Modern
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Rethinking the Early Modern.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: On Poetic Becoming in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter One: Everything in Its Right Place: Location and Geography in Boileau's Art poétique; Chapter Two: Lucretius and Cosmogenesis in La Fontaine and Molière; Chapter Three: The Invention of Pierre Corneille: Place and the New; Chapter Four: Racine and the Geography of Becoming; Chapter Five: Landscape and Poetic Event in Honoré d'Urfé's L'Astrée; Chapter Six: The World Written Out: Space and Description from Madeleine de Scudéry to the Princesse de Clèves. |
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Conclusion: The Chorological Early ModernNotes; Index. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Space and time in literature.
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Imagination in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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French literature |
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Imagination in literature |
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Space and time in literature |
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1600-1699 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Peters, Jeffrey N. Written World : Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France. Chicago : Northwestern University Press, ©2018 9780810136984 |
| ISBN |
9780810136991 (electronic bk.) |
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0810136996 (electronic bk.) |
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