Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (351)

UGent (209)

ULB (178)

ULiège (177)

Odisee (171)

VUB (158)

VIVES (152)

Thomas More Mechelen (143)

UCLL (142)

KBR (141)

More...

Resource type

book (632)

digital (9)

periodical (6)

dissertation (5)

image (3)

More...

Language

English (347)

French (136)

Dutch (79)

German (36)

Italian (19)

More...

Year
From To Submit

2024 (2)

2023 (8)

2022 (11)

2021 (14)

2020 (19)

More...
Listing 1 - 10 of 650 << page
of 65
>>
Sort by
Zweckmässigkeit und menschliches Glück : [Bamberger Hegelwochen 1993
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9783928648127 3928648128 Year: 1994 Publisher: Bamberg: Fränkischer Tag,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Fortune


Book
Modern luck : narratives of fortune in the long twentieth century
Author:
Year: 2023 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists. We 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 the modernity of the 'long twentieth century' is no exception to the rule. Apparently overshadowed by more conceptually tight, scientific and characteristically modern notions such as chance, contingency, probability or randomness, luck nevertheless persists in all its messiness and vitality, used in our everyday language and the subject of studies by everyone from philosophers to psychologists, economists to self-help gurus. 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. Indeed, it argues that modern luck is constituted through narrative, through modern luck stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre - from Dostoevsky to Philip K. Dick, from Pinocchio to Cimino, from Curtiz to Kieślowski - 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.

Keywords

Fortune.


Book
La fortuna.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9788865420102 Year: 2012 Publisher: Salerno Scuola di pitagora

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Fortune


Book
Lusus fortunæ : the play of fortune: continually acted by the severall creatures on the stage of the world. Or, a glance at the various mutability, inconstancie, and uncertainty of all earthly things. From a consideration of the present times. By T. F.
Author:
Year: 1649 Publisher: [London] : Printed for R. L.,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

eebo-0018

Keywords

Fortune


Book
Modern luck : narratives of fortune in the long twentieth century
Author:
Year: 2023 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists. We 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 the modernity of the 'long twentieth century' is no exception to the rule. Apparently overshadowed by more conceptually tight, scientific and characteristically modern notions such as chance, contingency, probability or randomness, luck nevertheless persists in all its messiness and vitality, used in our everyday language and the subject of studies by everyone from philosophers to psychologists, economists to self-help gurus. 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. Indeed, it argues that modern luck is constituted through narrative, through modern luck stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre - from Dostoevsky to Philip K. Dick, from Pinocchio to Cimino, from Curtiz to Kieślowski - 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.

Keywords

Fortune.


Image
Jeu de la Fortune

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

FORTUNE


Book
Modern luck : narratives of fortune in the long twentieth century
Author:
Year: 2023 Publisher: London : UCL Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Beliefs, superstitions and tales about luck are present across all human cultures, according to anthropologists. We 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 the modernity of the 'long twentieth century' is no exception to the rule. Apparently overshadowed by more conceptually tight, scientific and characteristically modern notions such as chance, contingency, probability or randomness, luck nevertheless persists in all its messiness and vitality, used in our everyday language and the subject of studies by everyone from philosophers to psychologists, economists to self-help gurus. 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. Indeed, it argues that modern luck is constituted through narrative, through modern luck stories. Analysing a rich and unusually eclectic range of narrative taken from literature, film, music, television and theatre - from Dostoevsky to Philip K. Dick, from Pinocchio to Cimino, from Curtiz to Kieślowski - 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.

Keywords

Fortune.


Book
The wheel of fortune : which never fails to answer your questions
Author:
ISBN: 0340125225 9780340125229 Year: 1970 Publisher: London : Hodder Paperbacks,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Die Königslose : J. G. Wetzsteins freie Nachdichtung eines arabischen Losbuches
Authors: ---
Year: 1929 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Fortune-telling


Book
Le palais de l'amour et de la fortune.
Authors: ---
Year: 1663 Publisher: Paris? : Jean-Baptiste Loyson?,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Fortune-telling

Listing 1 - 10 of 650 << page
of 65
>>
Sort by