Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century: Comparative Literature and Culture
Autor Robert S. C. Gordonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2023
Beliefs, superstitions, and tales about luck are present across all human cultures. Humans are perennially fascinated by luck and by its association with happiness and danger, uncertainty and aspiration. Yet it remains an elusive, ungraspable idea, one that slips and slides over time: all cultures reimagine what luck is and how to tame it at different stages in their history, and our own era is no exception to the rule.
Modern Luck sets out to explore the enigma of luck’s presence in modernity, examining the hybrid forms it has taken on in the modern imagination, and in particular in the field of modern stories. Analyzing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narratives taken from literature, film, music, television, and theatre, from Dostoevsky to Philip K. Dick, Pinocchio to Cimino, Curtiz to Kieslowski, it lays out first the usages and meanings of the language of luck, and then the key figures, patterns, and motifs that govern the stories told about it, from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800083608
ISBN-10: 1800083602
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Seria Comparative Literature and Culture
ISBN-10: 1800083602
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Seria Comparative Literature and Culture
Notă biografică
Robert S. C. Gordon teaches in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.
Cuprins
PrefacePART I1 Something
old, something new2 Word
trees and etymologies
PART II3 Lucky
numbers4 Lucky
places, lucky lines5 The
luckiest man6 Moral
luck and the survivor7 Luck
and the low life8 Early
style and child’s play
Afterword
References
old, something new2 Word
trees and etymologies
PART II3 Lucky
numbers4 Lucky
places, lucky lines5 The
luckiest man6 Moral
luck and the survivor7 Luck
and the low life8 Early
style and child’s play
Afterword
References