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100	1		_aFarnsworth, Rodney _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMediating Order and Chaos : _bThe Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture / _cRodney Farnsworth.
246	3		_aThe Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture
264		1	_aLeiden; _aBoston : _bBRILL, _c2001.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
490	1		_aInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; _v56
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Method, Model and Sub-models -- The Method: Complexity Theory Applied -- The Science Sub-Model from Hydrology and Meteorology -- The Humanities Sub-Model from Literature, Painting, and Music -- The Political Sub-Model: from Revolutions and Counterrevolutions -- Source: -- Fountains -- Springs -- How they fit into the water-cycle -- Flow: Brooks -- Rivers -- Waterfalls -- How they fit into the water-cyle -- Receptacle -- Lake -- Sea -- Ocean -- How they fit into the water-cycle -- Link -- Clouds and the processes of evaporation and condensation - rain and snow -- How they complete the cosmic vision of the water-cycle -- Conclusions: the three complex adaptive systems of the Romantics.
520			_aThis 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aChaotic behavior in systems in literature.
650		0	_aComplexity (Philosophy) in literature.
650		0	_aCulture _xPhilosophy _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aHumanism in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature and science.
650		0	_aRomanticism.
650		0	_aWater in literature.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tMediating Order and Chaos : The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture. _dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2001 _z9789042014275 _w(OCoLC)49722121
830		0	_aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
830		0	_aInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; _v56.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004490130
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