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... serve as ' a cross - roads , a juncture ' , a matrix where various cultural associa- tions interact and converge , and that is the way I use chaos theory here . My central arguments - that in literature , as in life , momen- tous ...
... serve as ' a cross - roads , a juncture ' , a matrix where various cultural associa- tions interact and converge , and that is the way I use chaos theory here . My central arguments - that in literature , as in life , momen- tous ...
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... serve a higher order as a creative force that may produce beauty , freedom and growth as well as catastrophe . Thus ... served of Milton ) likewise of the Devil's party . And so is their audience : where , for instance , would Paradise ...
... serve a higher order as a creative force that may produce beauty , freedom and growth as well as catastrophe . Thus ... served of Milton ) likewise of the Devil's party . And so is their audience : where , for instance , would Paradise ...
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... serve the deterministic purposes of Shakespeare's art . Likewise , when he discovered the principle of deterministic chaos governing nature's weather systems , Edward Lorenz did not stop with an image of predictability giving way to ...
... serve the deterministic purposes of Shakespeare's art . Likewise , when he discovered the principle of deterministic chaos governing nature's weather systems , Edward Lorenz did not stop with an image of predictability giving way to ...
Contents
chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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Strange Attractors: Literature, Culture, and Chaos Theory Harriett Hawkins No preview available - 1995 |
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