Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic CultureRodopi, 2001 - 349 páginas 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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... Shelley and Goethe - understood these discoveries to a surprising degree . For the rest , it was — or was fast becoming part of a climate of opinion or knowledge , to use Whitehead's concept . Yet , there were a few poets and artists ...
... Shelley and Goethe - understood these discoveries to a surprising degree . For the rest , it was — or was fast becoming part of a climate of opinion or knowledge , to use Whitehead's concept . Yet , there were a few poets and artists ...
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... Shelley , Hugh Roberts employs chaos theory - another term for complexity theory , suggesting , I think , a subtly different approach . Roberts , rather like Tolstoy , concentrates on ' factals ' or the concepts of an infinite ...
... Shelley , Hugh Roberts employs chaos theory - another term for complexity theory , suggesting , I think , a subtly different approach . Roberts , rather like Tolstoy , concentrates on ' factals ' or the concepts of an infinite ...
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... this faith , and I can only do this up to a point simply because they used it so frequently . Goethe , Wordsworth , Shelley , and 18 Abrams , Natural Supernaturalism 292–93 . Hugo to take particular instances - found in it a 14.
... this faith , and I can only do this up to a point simply because they used it so frequently . Goethe , Wordsworth , Shelley , and 18 Abrams , Natural Supernaturalism 292–93 . Hugo to take particular instances - found in it a 14.
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... Shelley , or Staël . To try to keep this study from falling , at its very outset , into the currently very fashionable lure of theoretical abstractions , let me take one of the many possible examples one that lies on the very cusp that ...
... Shelley , or Staël . To try to keep this study from falling , at its very outset , into the currently very fashionable lure of theoretical abstractions , let me take one of the many possible examples one that lies on the very cusp that ...
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... these developments the shaping effect of the great iron bridges . These were great Romantic iron spans 39 Roberts , Shelley and the Chaos of History 252-53 . thrown like acts of imaginative idealism across breath - taking 28.
... these developments the shaping effect of the great iron bridges . These were great Romantic iron spans 39 Roberts , Shelley and the Chaos of History 252-53 . thrown like acts of imaginative idealism across breath - taking 28.
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Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ... Rodney Farnsworth Pré-visualização limitada - 2021 |
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Abrams allegorical artist aspect Baroque Byron Caspar David Friedrich century chaos chapter Classicism clouds Coleridge complexity theory concept Constable context cosmic create cycle described Dorothea Duddon elements employed eternal falls Faust flow flux fountain French Revolution Friedrich glacier Goethe Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea Hugo Hugo's human hydrological-cycle hydrology imagery Jane Austen Kenneth Clark lake Lamartine landscape Lansing lines lyric Mary Shelley metaphor mind mist Mont Blanc movement nature Neoclassical Neoclassicism ocean offers painters painting paradox passage permanence in change persona poem poet poet's poetic poetry political quarter rain rendered represent rhetoric river River Duddon rocks Romantic culture Romanticism scene scientific seems sense Shelley Shelley's significant sonnet spring stanza Stolberg Storm and Stress stream suggest symbol term topographical treated Turner Vaughan vision water images water phenomena water-cycle waterfall waves Weimar Classicism Werther Wordsworth world view York
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Romanticism: Comparative Discourses Larry H. Peer,Diane Long Hoeveler Pré-visualização indisponível - 2006 |