In The Written World , 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 the Platonic concept of chora, Peters shows that canonical literary works of the French seventeenth century are guided by what he calls a chorological approach to poetic invention.
Northwestern University Press Written world. space, literature, and the chorological imagination in early modern france, paperback/jeffrey n. peters
