Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic CultureRodopi, 2001 - 349 sidor 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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... Byron and the Romantic Sea Itself 231 Sunsets and Mythic Memories over the Waters 241 Lake and Sea Storms 247 Ocean , Shore , and Mountain in Wordsworth , Hugo , and Liszt Old Age and Death : The Ocean in the Water - Cycle 254 261 ...
... Byron and the Romantic Sea Itself 231 Sunsets and Mythic Memories over the Waters 241 Lake and Sea Storms 247 Ocean , Shore , and Mountain in Wordsworth , Hugo , and Liszt Old Age and Death : The Ocean in the Water - Cycle 254 261 ...
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... Byron , Hugo , and Lamartine . Lansing's research and writings have given me these firm convictions : that I can best proceed by revolving my study around the central axis of the hydrological - cycle and by centering on literature ...
... Byron , Hugo , and Lamartine . Lansing's research and writings have given me these firm convictions : that I can best proceed by revolving my study around the central axis of the hydrological - cycle and by centering on literature ...
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... Byron , like Goethe , defies periodizatio- n . Although he set the tone and created many of the themes of English ... Byron's poetic usages of water phenomena and , with two exceptions , I have focused attention on passages from the ...
... Byron , like Goethe , defies periodizatio- n . Although he set the tone and created many of the themes of English ... Byron's poetic usages of water phenomena and , with two exceptions , I have focused attention on passages from the ...
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... Byron's Childe Harold and other works influenced by the latter . Finally , the time - frame draws into it the lives of the three leading landscape painters Friedrich , Constable , and , except for the last decade of his life , Turner ...
... Byron's Childe Harold and other works influenced by the latter . Finally , the time - frame draws into it the lives of the three leading landscape painters Friedrich , Constable , and , except for the last decade of his life , Turner ...
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... Byron was 31 , Shelley 27 , Keats 24. The dates are sufficient reminders of a period of poetical turmoil and controversy fierce enough to make it very difficult for even the least sensitive to be indifferent . Peterloo pointed up ...
... Byron was 31 , Shelley 27 , Keats 24. The dates are sufficient reminders of a period of poetical turmoil and controversy fierce enough to make it very difficult for even the least sensitive to be indifferent . Peterloo pointed up ...
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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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Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ... Rodney Farnsworth Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2021 |
Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ... Rodney Farnsworth Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2001 |
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Sida 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.
Sida 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!
Sida 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...
Sida 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.
Sida 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.