The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
John Lyons
The Phantom of Chance: From Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
John Lyons
Focusing on it as a subjective phenomenon, this is the first study to explore the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of chance by contrasting works that centre on mathematical probability and gambling. A re-examination of the work of major authors - including Montaigne, Corneille, Moliere, Lafayette, Scudery, Pascal, Racine, Bossuet and La Bruyere - shows how they struggled to represent a world that is both random and meaningful.
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