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Book SynopsisCompares the texts and obsessions of the Romantic and postmodern periods.
Table of ContentsHorrors 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"
