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Gray, Stanley E. Robertson, Jean Ellen 2011-05-07T14:13:49Z 2011-05-07T14:13:49Z 10000-01-01 1995 Through an examination of works from Dada and Surrealism, of Malraux's La Condition humaine, of some examples of the New Novel, and of Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique I observe the occurrence, over the course of the twentieth century, of a shift in attitude toward events which occur by chance (which I define as events which exceed human control). From a tentative and fearful attitude there is a demonstrable move toward a decidedly open and positive one. In addition to the literary texts examined, I demonstrate the importance of such events to the philosophies of Georges Bataille and Jean-Paul Sartre. This shift in attitude is emphasized through a contrastive study of Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son mai tre, Zola's Therese Raquin and Huysmans' A Rebours. The study leads to discussion of the possible sources of this phenomenon as well as implications for the individual and for society. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:13:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9543706.pdf: 9965029 bytes, checksum: b8fd00177201dbbd61c696c2c7a88089 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1995 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:04:25Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:30:46-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9543706 (UMI)AAI9543706 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/23428 eng Copyright 1995 Robertson, Jean Ellen Literature, Romance Philosophy History, Modern A literary perspective on the notion of le hasard in twentieth century France text Literature, Romance Philosophy History, Modern Literature, Romance Philosophy History, Modern University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.