The Phantom of Chance : : From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature / / John Lyons.
How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chanceIs chance nothing more than a projection of human desire on to the world?In this fascinating new study, John Lyons argues that the idea of chance assumed new vigour in the late Renaissance, when converging ph...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: The Phantom of Chance
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Fortune, Mistress of Events: Corneille and the Poetics of Tragedy
- 2 God in a World of Chance: Pascal’s Pensées and Provincial Letters
- 3 From Chance Events to Implausible Actions: Lafayette and the Novel
- 4 The God of Suspense: Bossuet’s Providential History and Racine’s Athalie
- 5 An Accidental World: La Bruyère’s Characters
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index