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The Phantom of Chance
From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
von John D Lyons
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
Reihe: Edinburgh Critical Studies in
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ISBN: 978-0-7486-4515-2
Erschienen am 30.11.2011
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 236 mm [H] x 157 mm [B] x 23 mm [T]
Gewicht: 576 Gramm
Umfang: 240 Seiten

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AUTHOR-APPROVED BLURB Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture Series Editor: Lorna Hutson These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on literary texts in English and in a range of vernacular languages. They also deal with the reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage. 'John D. Lyons' new take on the issue of chance, supported by illuminating interpretations of major 17th-century French texts, invites the reader to rethink the enigmatic links between randomness and necessity. Beautifully written, powerfully argued, The Phantom of Chance is a major contribution to the intellectual and literary history of modern times.' Thomas Pavel, University of Chicago 'John D. Lyons brilliantly shows how, in both literary and religious writing of the Seventeenth Century, the quest for pattern has to come to terms with the apparently irreducible element of randomness in human life. Original in conception, broad in perspective, subtle in analysis, this is a remarkable book.' Michael Moriarty, Drapers Professor of French, University of Cambridge Examines the shift from classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune to modern notions of chance In spite of groundbreaking work by historians of science on the emergence of mathematical probability in the Renaissance period, chance has not been much studied in relation to the literary field. The new vigour assumed by chance in the late Renaissance appears in works that explain the perception of fortuitous events as projections of human desire and fear onto the world. In focusing on this understanding of chance as a subjective phenomenon, The Phantom of Chance is the first study to explore its aesthetic and ethical dimensions, by contrast with works centred on mathematical probability and gambling. A re-examination of the work of major authors shows how they represented a world that is both random and yet meaningful. John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Profe



John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of 13 books including: Exemplum: The Rhetoric of Example in Early Modern France and Italy (Princeton University Press, 1989), Kingdom of Disorder. The Theory of Tragedy in Seventeenth-Century France (Purdue University Press, 1999), Before Imagination. Embodied Thought From Montaigne to Rousseau (Stanford University Press, 2005) and French Literature. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010).


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