Figures of Chance I

ISBN-13: 9781032358628 / Twarda / 2024 / 448 str.

Opis

Figures of Chance I: Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th–21st Centuries) proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural phenomena related to the evolution of representations of chance and contingency. 

Spis treści

Introduction

By Fiona McIntosh Varjabédian (U. Lille)

 

Chapter 1. 1340-1610. Figures of Fortune in the European Renaissance: Chance and Providence

Edited by Olivier Guerrier (U. Toulouse)

With Florence Buttay (U. Caen), Nicolas Correard (U. Nantes), Louise Dehondt (U. Picardie – Jules Verne), Marie-Luce Demonet (U.Tours), Alexandre Tarrête (U. Paris-Sorbonne), Alicia Viaud (U. Montréal), Enrica Zanin (IUF/U. Strabourg)

 

Chapter 2. 1570-1700. Challenges to Fortune and the Emergence of Chance

Edited by Guiomar Hautcoeur-Pérez-Espejo (U. Paris Cité), Zoé Schweitzer (U. Saint-Etienne) et Anne Teulade (U. Rennes 2)

With Carole Boidin (U. Paris Nanterre), Line Cottegnies (Sorbonne U.), Camille Esmein-Sarrazin (U. Orléans), Élisabeth Lacombe (U. Picardie-Jules Verne), Éric Marquer (U. Paris-1), Émilie Picherot (IUF/U. Lille), David Sedley (U. Haverford), Laurent Susini (U. Lumière-Lyon 2), Laurent Thirouin (U. Lumière-Lyon2)

 

Chapter 3. 1670­­–1814. Playing With Chance

Edited by Caroline Jacot Grapa (U. Lille)

With Sylviane Albertan-Coppola (U. Picardie-Jules Verne), Michel Henry (U. Franche-Comté), Florence Magnot-Ogilvy (IUF/U. Rennes-2), Bernard Sève (U. Lille), Charles Wolfe (U. Toulouse)

 

Chapter 4. 1798–1895. The Demise of Chance? Determinism and its Discontents

Edited by Danielle Follett (U. Paris Cité), Martine Lavaud (U. Artois), Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian (U. Lille) et Anne-Gaëlle Weber (U. Artois)

 

Chapter 5 1895–1980. Modern Figures of Chance: Accidents and Procedures

Edited by Alison James (U. Chicago) et Sébastien Wit (U. Picardie Jules Verne)

With Julia Jordan (U. College London), Isabelle Krzywkowski (U. Grenoble Alpes), Benoît Monginot (U. Turin), Jason Puskar (Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Christelle Reggiani (U. Paris Sorbonne), Sarah Troche (U. Lille) & Christina Vogel (U. Zurich)

 

Chapter 6. 1980 to the Present. Chance in the Age of Data

Edited by Alexandre Gefen (Thalim-CNRS)

With Laurent Demanze (U. Grenoble), Magali Nachtergael (U. Bordeaux-Montaigne, Alexandra Saemmer (U. Paris 8), Gaëlle Théval (U. Rouen)

O autorze

Anne Duprat, principal director of the international Collaborative Research Project ANR-ALEA (2020-2023), is the general editor of the work. Professor of comparative literature at the Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, Anne Duprat is the author of recognized works on the theory of fiction and on the relationships between literature, cultural anthropology, and intellectual history. A member of the Institut Universitaire de France, her publications include Vraisemblances. Poétique et théorie de la fiction (Droz, 2009), Fiction et cultures (ed. with Françoise Lavocat, 2010) and Histoires et savoirs. Anecdotes scientifiques et sérendipité aux XVI^e et XVIII^e siècle (ed. with F. Aït-Touati, 2012). 

Anne-Gaëlle Weber (Pr., U. Artois) is a specialist of relationships between science and literature.

Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian (Pr., U. Lille) is a specialist of literature of ideas (politics, historiography, science) in the 18th and 19th centuries.