Arrow of chaos : romanticism and postmodernity / Ira Livingston.
Material type: TextSeries: Theory out of bounds ; v. 9.Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0816627940
- 9780816627943
- 0816627959
- 9780816627950
- 809.04 20
- PN771 .L588 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Romantic Machinery -- Romanticism and Postmodernity -- Romantic Chaos -- Romanticism and Romanticism -- Metastibility and Metastability -- History Moves like a Snake -- Worlds in Collision -- Posthumanities -- Panopticon and Pi: The School of Mirrors -- Ch. 2. Horrors of Order and Disorder -- Reversal, Turning Inside Out, Horizontalization -- Mixture and Fixture: Political Thermodynamics in Burke and Paine -- The Hegemony of Hegemony: Wordsworth's Fractal Distinction -- Mixing Mixture and Fixture: "The Clod and the Pebble" -- Counterperformativity and Self-Difference: Elisabeth Hands -- In the Wake of the Book: "The Mask of Anarchy" -- The Roughness of the Beast: "The Second Coming" -- Ch. 3. Fractal Logics of Romanticism: Concentricity and Eccentricity -- Wheel within Wheel: Blake's Recursive Physics -- Irony: A Vortex amid Vortices -- Gyroscopophilia: Wordsworth's "Slumber" -- Time in the School of Mirrors: "Tintern Abbey" and "Frost at Midnight" -- Nesting-Doll Narrators: Frankenstein -- Postmodern Postscript: Concentric Collapse in Twin Peaks -- Ch. 4. Fractal Logics of Romanticism: Binary Decomposition -- Introduction: Paine's Headless Hydra -- Gender in the School of Mirrors: Frankenstein -- The Romantic Double-Cross: Keats's Letters -- Interference of Text and Work in Stevens's "Palm" -- Ch. 5. Fractal Logics of Romanticism: Rhythming -- Introduction: Romantic Dysrhythmia -- Blake's Cycles -- Irresolution and Interdependence -- Parkinsonism, Romanticism, Postmodernism: Neurology as Ideology -- Ch. 6. Postmodern Postscript -- The Traffic in Leeches: Cronenberg's Rabid and the Semiotics of Parasitism -- The Ends of Dreams -- Some Semiotic Panoctopi -- Chinese Romanticism, Postmodernity, and "Obscure Poetry" -- Works Cited -- Index.
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