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Traces the relationship between the texts and obsessions of the Romantic and postmodern periods.Arrow of Chaos navigates through postmodern coordinates such as chaos theory and fractals as well as literary and cultural theory, mapping the ongoing mutations of Romanticism in postmodern culture and the inklings of the postmodern already at work in Romanticism. The result is a “chaology of knowledge,” a study of the logic of chaos.Ira Livingston’s reading of Romantic and postmodern texts-from poetic, political and scientific works to films and dreams-reveal surprising code shiftings within and among them. The resilience of Romanticism, Livingston argues, lies not in enforcing a single “master narrative” but in orchestrating these fluxes.Using theory and critical readings alongside a series of illustrative vignettes, Livingston portrays cultural history as a dynamic entity conserved by the continually renewed demands of order and disorder. By modeling ways to think through chaos and through the mutual deformations of Romanticism and postmodernity, Arrow of Chaos contributes to alternative alignments of knowledge across time and technique.
Ira Livingston is assistant professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Horrors of order and disorder: reversal, turning inside out, horizontalization; mixture and fixture: political thermodynamics in Burke and Pain; 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". 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: Frankestein; postmodern postscript: concentric collapse in Twin Peaks. Fractal logics of Romanticism - binary decomposition: introduction: Paine's headless hydra; gender in the school of mirrors: Frankestein; the romantic double-cross: Keats' s letters; interference of texts and work in Steven's "Palm". Fractal logics of Romanticism - binary rhythming: introduction: romantic dysrhythmia; Blake's cycles; irresolution and interdependence; Parkinsonism, Romanticism, postmodernism: neurology as ideology. Postmodern postscript: the traffic in leeches: Cronenberg's rabid and the semiotics of parasitism; the ends of dreams; some semiotic panactopi; Chinese Romanticism, postmodernism, and "obscure poetry"
