Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic CultureRodopi, 2001 - 349 pagina's 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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Pagina 4
... opening pages were presented as ' Romantic Society as Complex Adaptive System : A Case Where Complexity Theory Might Apply ' , in Park City , Utah , on 5 October 1996. Significant parts of the introduction and chapter two were read in a ...
... opening pages were presented as ' Romantic Society as Complex Adaptive System : A Case Where Complexity Theory Might Apply ' , in Park City , Utah , on 5 October 1996. Significant parts of the introduction and chapter two were read in a ...
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... open ocean . The prospect was unlimited , but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding ; not the slightest variety that I ... opening and thereby facilitate navigation , at other times retiring from the shores to permit man to collect that ...
... open ocean . The prospect was unlimited , but exceedingly monotonous and forbidding ; not the slightest variety that I ... opening and thereby facilitate navigation , at other times retiring from the shores to permit man to collect that ...
Pagina 23
... openings . Kircher's views , equivalent to those of the most fanciful of modern science popularizers , were widely published and read . Such views continued to rival the real scientific notions into the eighteenth century , so it was ...
... openings . Kircher's views , equivalent to those of the most fanciful of modern science popularizers , were widely published and read . Such views continued to rival the real scientific notions into the eighteenth century , so it was ...
Pagina 26
... open with a celebration of the steam engine , after which Cadi gets down to introducing the scientific reasoning on the principles of the motive power of heat . His note of 1830 sets forth the law that ' Heat is nothing but motive power ...
... open with a celebration of the steam engine , after which Cadi gets down to introducing the scientific reasoning on the principles of the motive power of heat . His note of 1830 sets forth the law that ' Heat is nothing but motive power ...
Pagina 33
... open each of the four chapters . Such a survey will facilitate the isolation of peculiar aspects of water images and of water symbols between 1760 and 1870. Of equal importance , such an understanding will indicate the similarities ...
... open each of the four chapters . Such a survey will facilitate the isolation of peculiar aspects of water images and of water symbols between 1760 and 1870. Of equal importance , such an understanding will indicate the similarities ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
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Romanticism: Comparative Discourses Larry H. Peer,Diane Long Hoeveler Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2006 |