TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thiher,Allen
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Fiction refracts science: modernist writers from Proust to Borges 
AV  - PN3352.S34 T55 2005eb
U1  - 809/.9336 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Columbia
PB  - University of Missouri Press
KW  - Literature and science
KW  - Science in literature
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index; Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "Examines the relationship between science and the fiction developed by modernists, including Musil, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce. Looks at Pascalian and Newtonian cosmology, Darwinism, epistemology, relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the development of modernist and postmodern fiction, positivism, and finally works by Woolf, Faulkner, and Borges"--Provided by publisher
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