Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / Allen Thiher.
Thiher, Allen, 1941-
2005
PN3352.S34 T55 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / Allen Thiher.
Author Thiher, Allen, 1941-
ISBN 0826215807 (alk. paper)
Imprint Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
Language English
Description xii, 297 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number PN3352.S34 T55 2005
Alternate Call Number 17.76
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.9336
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, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
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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.

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