Böcker av John D. Lyons

Authoritative, wide-ranging, and thought provoking, Tragedy and the Return of the Dead uncovers a set of interlocking plots of family violence that stretch from Greek antiquity up to the popular culture of today. John D. Lyons looks closely at tragedy's staging of gory and painful deaths, ignominious burials, and the haunting return of ghosts.

A study of the practice of vivid, self-directed imagination in the optimistic spirit of the early-modern French writers.

In the Renaissance and early modern periods there were lively controversies over why things happen. Central to these debates was the troubling idea that things could simply happen by chance. This book offers a broad cultural and literary view of field of chance in this period.