The Phantom of Chance : From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature /
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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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture ;
ECSRC |
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