The phantom of chance [electronic resource] : from fortune to randomness in seventeenth-century French literature / John D. Lyons.
Lyons, John D., 1946-
2012
PQ241 .L96 2012eb
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Title
The phantom of chance [electronic resource] : from fortune to randomness in seventeenth-century French literature / John D. Lyons.
Author
Lyons, John D., 1946-
ISBN
9780748645169 (electronic book)
9780748645152
0748645152
Publication Details
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 211 p.)
Call Number
PQ241 .L96 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
840.9004
Summary
"Is 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 philosophical and literary currents demystified the powerful concept of Fortune, sensitizing writers to the relationship between human desire and the world's apparent randomness." [Publisher's description].
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[199]-208) and index.
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Series
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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