John D. Lyons

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wine, Kathleen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Placing the conflict between chance and order at the center of early modern French culture, these essays cluster around four problems: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics of Chance, and Chance and its Remedies. By demonstrating the breadth and intensity of the early modern questioning of chance, they offer an illuminating new perspective on French culture in the period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317168690
• Artikelnr.: 44876471

Autorenporträt

John D. Lyons is Commonwealth Professor of French at the University of Virginia, USA. Kathleen Wine is Associate Professor of French at Dartmouth College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Early-Modern Chaos and the Chance Hypothesis
Part 1 Providence in Question
Chapter 1 Montaigne Between Fortune and Providence, Alain Legros
Chapter 2 Providence and Imago Mundi, Frank Lestringant
Chapter 3 Chance and Errors of Nature: A Literature of Demystification, François Rigolot
Part 2 Poetics and Aesthetics of Chance
Chapter 4 Toward a Poetics of Adventure: Amadis de Gaule, Virginia Krause
Chapter 5 Random Trials: Chance and Chronotope in Gomberville's Polexandre, Kathleen Wine
Chapter 6 Sublime Accidents, John D. Lyons
Chapter 7 Chance in the Tragedies of Racine, John Campbell
Part 3 The Law and the Ethics of Chance
Chapter 8 Prudence and the Ethics of Contingency in Montaigne's Essais, Richard Regosin
Chapter 9 Malebranche and the Laws of Grace, Michael Moriarty
Part 4 Chance and its Remedies
Chapter 10 The Language of Fortune in Descartes, Emma Gilby
Chapter 11 Fortune, Long Life, Montaigne, Amy Wygant
Chapter 12 Cardinal de Retz's Memoirs: Encountering Fortune and Taking Timely Steps, Malina Stefanovska