Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic CultureRodopi, 2001 - 349 sider This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for the first time a complexity method taken from the social/human sciences. This complexity method is useful in mediating not only contradictions within Romanticism, but the chaos of contemporary theories concerning it. One of the intensifying literary debates is that between the so-called "Greens" and "Reds," naturalists and humanists. Mediating Order and Chaos not only traces the split between nature and man to Romantic Culture but finds there, too, a Spinozian vision of man and nature in unity - thereby denying any naturalist/humanist split. This volume is of interest for those who wish to see essays in the holistic approach to culture. Centering on hydraulics, hydrology, and meteorology, this study examines literature, painting, music, economics, and the rhetoric of science, philosophy, and politics, it therewith demonstrates how the water cycle was transformed into a cosmic metaphor that mediated, in the form of several complex adaptive systems, between the chaos of too much change and that of not enough. |
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... flux and reflux and , yet , is made to symbolize permanence . The signifier , at once , represents and deconstructs . In spite of or because of its contradictions , this symbol is simultaneously more philosophically powerful and ...
... flux and reflux and , yet , is made to symbolize permanence . The signifier , at once , represents and deconstructs . In spite of or because of its contradictions , this symbol is simultaneously more philosophically powerful and ...
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... flux and indeterminacy . [ ... ] From the standpoint of chaos theory , the limits to our ability to know the world have less to do with epistemology than with the hitherto unsuspected complexity - the ' factal ' complexity of the world ...
... flux and indeterminacy . [ ... ] From the standpoint of chaos theory , the limits to our ability to know the world have less to do with epistemology than with the hitherto unsuspected complexity - the ' factal ' complexity of the world ...
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... Flux is an even greater threat . To Crevecoeur's narrator , this family living at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean is poised on the edge of chaos . Such consciousness of motion and space as Crèvecoeur evidences may not be peculiar to the ...
... Flux is an even greater threat . To Crevecoeur's narrator , this family living at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean is poised on the edge of chaos . Such consciousness of motion and space as Crèvecoeur evidences may not be peculiar to the ...
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... flux , convey the sense that Howard realizes he is dealing less with entities and more with processes . The second category makes clear the profound understanding Howard had of what he was trying to categorize : he fully comprehended ...
... flux , convey the sense that Howard realizes he is dealing less with entities and more with processes . The second category makes clear the profound understanding Howard had of what he was trying to categorize : he fully comprehended ...
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... flux are germane to this study , these efforts are only important when they embody something larger . From among the later English Romantics , I have chosen works by Byron , Mary Shelley , and Percy Shelley for particular attention , as ...
... flux are germane to this study , these efforts are only important when they embody something larger . From among the later English Romantics , I have chosen works by Byron , Mary Shelley , and Percy Shelley for particular attention , as ...
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SOURCE | 69 |
FLOW | 117 |
RECEPTACLE | 199 |
LINK | 267 |
CONCLUSION | 325 |
PRIMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY | 331 |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ON SECONDARY WORKS | 342 |
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Side 249 - And first one universal shriek there rush'd, Louder than the loud ocean, like a crash Of echoing thunder; and then all was hush'd, Save the wild wind and the remorseless dash Of billows; but at intervals there gush'd, Accompanied with a convulsive splash, A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
Side 103 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Side 208 - Mais s'il est un état où l'ame trouve une assiette assez solide pour s'y reposer tout entière , et rassembler là tout son être , sans avoir besoin de rappeler le passé ni d'enjamber sur l'avenir, où le temps ne soit rien pour elle , où le présent dure toujours, sans néanmoins marquer sa durée et sans aucune trace de succession...
Side 299 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Side 105 - Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree ; Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.