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Modern luck narratives of fortune in the long twentieth century.

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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: GORDON, ROBERT S. C.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: [S.l.] : UCL PRESS, 2023.
Collection:Comparative literature and culture.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I. 1 Something old, something new ; 2 Word trees and etymologies
  • Part II. 3 Lucky numbers ; 4 Lucky places, lucky lines ; 5 The luckiest man ; 6 Moral luck and the survivor ; 7 Luck and the low life ; 8 Early style and child's play.