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Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France

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Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France book

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France

DOI link for Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France book

ByJohn D. Lyons
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 8 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571218
Pages 234 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315571218
SubjectsHumanities
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Lyons, J., Wine, K. (Ed.). (2009). Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern France. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315571218

In the Renaissance and early modern periods, there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. In France, a major terrain of this intellectual debate, the chance hypothesis engaged writers coming from many different horizons: the ancient philosophies of Epicurus, the Stoa, and Aristotle, the renewed reading of the Bible in the wake of the Reformation, a fresh emphasis on direct, empirical observation of nature and society, the revival of dramatic tragedy with its paradoxical theme of the misfortunes that befall relatively good people, and growing introspective awareness of the somewhat arbitrary quality of consciousness itself. This volume is the first in English to offer a broad cultural and literary view of the field of chance in this period. The essays, by a distinguished team of scholars from the U.S., Britain, and France, cluster around four problems: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics, and Chance and its Remedies. Convincing and authoritative, this collection articulates a new and rich perspective on the culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction Early-Modern Chaos and the Chance Hypothesis

part |2 pages

Part 1 Providence in Question

chapter 1|14 pages

Montaigne Between Fortune and Providence

ByAlain Legros

chapter 2|18 pages

Providence and Imago Mundi

ByFrank Lestringant

chapter 3|14 pages

Chance and Errors of Nature: A Literature of Demystification

ByFrançois Rigolot

part |2 pages

Part 2 Poetics and Aesthetics of Chance

chapter 4|16 pages

Toward a Poetics of Adventure: Amadis de Gaule

ByVirginia Krause

chapter 5|14 pages

Random Trials: Chance and Chronotope in Gomberville’s Polexandre

ByKathleen Wine

chapter 6|16 pages

Sublime Accidents

ByJohn D. Lyons

chapter 7|12 pages

Chance in the Tragedies of Racine

ByJohn Campbell

part |2 pages

Part 3 The Law and the Ethics of Chance

chapter 8|16 pages

Prudence and the Ethics of Contingency in Montaigne’s Essais

ByRichard Regosin

chapter 9|12 pages

Malebranche and the Laws of Grace

ByMichael Moriarty

part |2 pages

PART 4 Chance and its Remedies

chapter 10|14 pages

The Language of Fortune in Descartes

ByEmma Gilby

chapter 11|14 pages

Fortune, Long Life, Montaigne

ByAmy Wygant

chapter 12|14 pages

Cardinal de Retz’s Memoirs: Encountering Fortune and Taking Timely Steps

ByMalina Stefanovska
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