Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic CultureRodopi, 2001 - 349 pages 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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... Mind of the European Romantics : An Essay in Cultural History is still a landmark comparative study , and of course , M.H. Abrams ' Natural Supernaturalism — which I unashamedly take as one of several models for my own - wonderfully ...
... Mind of the European Romantics : An Essay in Cultural History is still a landmark comparative study , and of course , M.H. Abrams ' Natural Supernaturalism — which I unashamedly take as one of several models for my own - wonderfully ...
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... mind first ; however , it offers a popular work that for its methodological armature - relies upon , as its subtitle says , A Personal View . Rather , I have found a very useful standard in his monographic study on Leo- nardo da Vinci ...
... mind first ; however , it offers a popular work that for its methodological armature - relies upon , as its subtitle says , A Personal View . Rather , I have found a very useful standard in his monographic study on Leo- nardo da Vinci ...
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... mind of the ' American Farmer ' , the narrator : The ever - raging ocean was all that presented itself to the view of this family ; it irresistibly attracted my whole attention : my eyes were involuntarily directed to the horizontal ...
... mind of the ' American Farmer ' , the narrator : The ever - raging ocean was all that presented itself to the view of this family ; it irresistibly attracted my whole attention : my eyes were involuntarily directed to the horizontal ...
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... mind of Ismael offers a parallel significantly close to that made upon Crèvecoeur's American farmer . Ismael , when he goes on board the Pequod to sign - on for his first voyage , is sent forward to view the ocean - as a psychological ...
... mind of Ismael offers a parallel significantly close to that made upon Crèvecoeur's American farmer . Ismael , when he goes on board the Pequod to sign - on for his first voyage , is sent forward to view the ocean - as a psychological ...
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... mind and matter , and his resulting brand of pantheism were welcome building material for Romantics seeking to create an all encompassing environmental vision advocating the unity of human and natural history . As Henry E. Allison ...
... mind and matter , and his resulting brand of pantheism were welcome building material for Romantics seeking to create an all encompassing environmental vision advocating the unity of human and natural history . As Henry E. Allison ...
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