Order/Disorder and Complexity in La Regenta
A Case for Spiraling Outward and Upward
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14808451 |
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| Authors | Elizabeth D Sánchez (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Central Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0743-6831 • E-ISSN: 1549-3377 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3189802 |
| OpenAlex | W2328201037 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
It has become fashionable these days for critics and historians of the nineteenth century to focus on the entropic vision of naturalist fiction and to explore the naturalist obsession with the inevitable passage of things from an ordered state to one of maximum disorder. The so-called biological imagination of the naturalists fixes on the descending phases of the life cycle-those disturbing organic realities that all begin with a d: disease, decay, disintegration, degeneration, decomposition, dissolution, and death-all to the detriment of the more positive features of the natural world: birth, growth, adaptation, organization, progress (in the form of ever-increasing complexity of systems), cooperation and global coherence among the parts of dynamic systems. Why, we may wonder, was there so much pessimism and negativity during the naturalist period, and why are some of us so fascinated with it now
Business · Order and disorder · Physics · French Literature and Poetry · Historical and Literary Studies · Materials Science · Renaissance Literature and Culture · Condensed Matter Physics
| Highly cited | No |
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