Romantic Dynamics

The Poetics of Physicality
2000. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-312-22671-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories

Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity, and complexity in a chaotic universe. This interdisciplinary work traces the elaboration of dynamical models of cosmos and consciousness in works by Blake, Byron, Coleridge, the Shelleys and Wordsworth, finding in those works an exploration of the interpenetration of psyche and phenomena. This model, the author argues, establishes a new metaphoric terrain liberated from the classical mechanics of Newtonian thought and more easily traversed with models articulated by Bohr, Einstein and Hawking.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lussier, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Preludium on Synchronicity Romantic Dynamics, or Towards a Physical Criticism Blake's Deep Ecology, or the Ethos of Otherness At the Limit of Physical Theory, or Physical Dynamics in Coleridge's Rime Blake's Vortex, or the Quantum Bridge in Milton Reconstructing Byronic Time, or Temporality and Memory in The Giaour The Rhythmic Universe, or Spatial Dynamics in Shelley's Poetics Methodic Sadism/Symbolic Misogyny Endnotes Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark S. Lussier is Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Arizona State University.