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THE PHANTOM OF CHANCE
THE PHANTOM OF CHANCE
Subtitle:
From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Book Category:
Literary Collections > General
Author:
Lyons, John D.
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780748645152
Price:
USD 105.00
Publication Year:
2012

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Edinburgh University Press.

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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.

 

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