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  title info:
    title: Figures of chance
  name:
    name part: Duprat, Anne
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: McIntosh-Varjabédian, Fiona
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Weber, Anne-Gaëlle
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: James, Alison (Alison Siân)
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Essays.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: volumes ; 24 cm
  abstract: V. 1. "Chance in Literature and the Arts (16th-21st Centuries) proposes a transhistorical analysis that will serve as a reference work on the evolution of literary and artistic representations of chance and contingency. Alongside its multidisciplinary companion volume, it considers how the projective and predictive capacity of societies is shaped by representations and cultural models of a reality that is understood, to varying degrees, to be contingent, unpredictable, or chaotic. Giving special emphasis to the French context while also developing broad cross-cultural comparisons, this volume examines the dialogue between evolving conceptions and changing representations of chance, from Renaissance figures of Fortune to the data-driven world of the present. Written by recognized specialists of each of the periods studied, it identifies and historicizes the main fictional and factual modes of portraying, narrating, and comprehending chance in the West"--
  abstract: V. 2. "Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural phenomena related to the evolution of representations of chance and contingency. It aims to measure what the projective and predictive capacity of societies owes, from the beginnings of the modern age, to their representation and/or cultural modeling of reality, insofar as this reality is understood to be contingent. This volume reevaluates the role played by figurative representations of chance in contemporary discourses of knowledge about chance and contingency. Written by seven interdisciplinary teams, including philosophy, literature, history of science, sociology, mathematics, cognitive science, information science, and art history, this text puts the scientific formulations of chance into dialogue with their contemporary literary representations. It thus brings out the central role played by art in the human perception of chance, and in modern and postmodern practices of projecting the future, in order to better understand contemporary human attitudes in the face of risk"--
  table of contents: V. 1. Chance in literature and the arts (16th-21st centuries) / edited by Anne Duprat, Fiona McIntosh Varjabédian, Anne-Gaëlle Weber -- v. 2. Chance in theory and practice / edited by Anne Duprat and Alison James.
  note: edited by Anne Duprat [and others].
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Chance in literature
  subject:
    topic: Chance in art
  subject:
    topic: Chance
  classification: PN56.C43 F54 2024
  classification: 809/.93384
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    title info:
      title: Figures of chance
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2024-
    identifier: (DLC) 2023055362
    identifier: (OCoLC)1428140980
  identifier: 9781032358628
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  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240320
    record change date: 20250318220317.7
    record identifier: in00005465106
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng