TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livingston,Ira
TI  - Arrow of chaos: romanticism and postmodernity 
T2  - Theory out of bounds
SN  - 0816627940
AV  - PN771 .L588 1997
U1  - 809.04 20
PY  - 1997///]
CY  - Minneapolis, Minn.
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
N1  - 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
ER  -