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Chaos and Culture
Richard Haglund recently organized a faculty seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University entitled Freedom, Determination, and Chaos. Martin Meisel is working on a new book entitled The Imagination of Chaos in Western Literature … Continue reading
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The Imagination of Chaos in Western Thought and Literature
Martin Meisel discusses how and why Western writers and artists have imagined chaos. For example, in his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton places chaos second only to chance as a counterpoint to humankind’s desire for order and unity. Meisel … Continue reading
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