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The Written World: Space, Literature, and the Chorological Imagination in Early Modern France by Jeffrey N. Peters (review)
Ist Teil von
The French Review, 2019-10, Vol.93 (1), p.204-205
Ort / Verlag
Carbondale: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In an introductory chapter, Peters explores Derrida's reading of this platonic dialogue to evoke chora as "an ineffable principle of cosmology that gives shape not only to the universe itself but also to the stories that tell of the world and its becoming" (19). The reading of Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves that concludes the book's body chapters provides the most intriguing insight into how changes in narrative structure track changes in spatial conceptualizations in early modern France. Whereas the pastoral represents landscape while expanding the reflection on space into a cosmic epistemology, the new form of Lafayette's novel accedes to yet another level of abstraction and indeterminacy.