Simplicity and complexity : pondering literature, science, and painting

Title
  1. Simplicity and complexity : pondering literature, science, and painting / Floyd Merrell.
Published by
  1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Author
  1. Merrell, Floyd, 1937-

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Description
  1. x, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. Simplicity and Complexity: Pondering Literature, Science, and Painting is about simplicity and complexity, order and disorder, as seen through the lenses of fiction, the sciences, and works of art. Floyd Merrell offers a nonmathematical account of chaos theory, fractal geometry, and the physics of complexity insofar as they are relevant to crucial facets of literature and painting created over the past century. Though his account is informal, he addresses technical concepts and philosophical questions, and sheds new light on the authors and painters he discusses. His interdisciplinary approach is within the mainstream of postmodern practices, yet it criticizes the tendency toward facile conclusions and sweeping generalizations regarding relations between the arts, the humanities, and the sciences. It brings an array of disciplines under an umbrella that is protective of particular theories, concepts, methods, and practices, while revealing connecting threads in the tenuously linked web of all human endeavors to know the product of the mind and of the world.
Series statement
  1. Studies in literature and science
Uniform title
  1. Studies in literature and science
Subject
  1. Simplicity (Philosophy)
  2. Complexity (Philosophy)
  3. Simplicity in literature
  4. Complexity (Philosophy) in literature
  5. Science > Philosophy
  6. Science > Methodology
  7. Simplicity in art
  8. Complexity (Philosophy) in art
  9. Complexity (Philosophy) in art
  10. Complexity (Philosophy) in literature
  11. Science > Methodology
  12. Science > Philosophy
  13. Simplicity in art
  14. Simplicity in literature
  15. Einfachheit
  16. Komplexität
  17. Literatur
  18. Kunst
  19. Wissenschaft
  20. Letterkunde
  21. Filosofie
  22. Wetenschappen
  23. Schilderkunst
  24. Eenvoud
  25. Complexiteit
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.