Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 585 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
In English. |
Subject |
Literature and society.
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Literature and society. |
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Chaotic behavior in systems -- Social aspects.
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Chaotic behavior in systems. |
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Social aspects. |
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Arts and society.
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Arts and society. |
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Social change.
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Social change. |
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Chaotic behavior in systems in literature.
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Chaotic behavior in systems in literature. |
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Literature and science.
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Literature and science. |
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Entropy in literature.
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Entropy in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Meisel, Martin. Chaos imagined. New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] 9780231166324 (DLC) 2015010548 (OCoLC)908448239 |
ISBN |
9780231540469 (electronic book) |
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0231540469 (electronic book) |
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9780231166324 |
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023116632X |
Standard No. |
10.7312/meis16632 |
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