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