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Author Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Title Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / Allen Thiher.

Publication Info. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  PN3352.S34 T55 2005    Available  ---
Description xii, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Summary "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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Literature and science.
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
Science in literature.
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
ISBN 0826215807 alkaline paper