000305322 000__ 01892cam\a2200349\a\45\0 000305322 001__ 305322 000305322 005__ 20210513112540.0 000305322 008__ 041213s2005\\\\mou\\\\\\b\\\s001\0\eng\\ 000305322 010__ $$a 2004029232 000305322 015__ $$aGBA526178 000305322 0167_ $$a013148099$$2Uk 000305322 020__ $$a0826215807 (alk. paper) 000305322 0291_ $$aNLGGC$$b272247995 000305322 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm57391927 000305322 035__ $$a305322 000305322 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dUKM$$dOCLCQ$$dMBB$$dBAKER$$dNLGGC 000305322 049__ $$aISEA 000305322 05000 $$aPN3352.S34$$bT55 2005 000305322 08200 $$a809/.9336$$222 000305322 084__ $$a17.76$$2bcl 000305322 1001_ $$aThiher, Allen,$$d1941- 000305322 24510 $$aFiction refracts science :$$bmodernist writers from Proust to Borges /$$cAllen Thiher. 000305322 260__ $$aColumbia :$$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$$cc2005. 000305322 300__ $$axii, 297 p. ;$$c25 cm. 000305322 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index. 000305322 5050_ $$aIntroduction : 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. 000305322 520__ $$a"Examines the relationship between science and the fiction developed by modernists, including Musil, Proust, Kafka, and Joyce. Looks at Pascalian and Newtonian cosmology, Darwinism, epistemology, relativity theory, quantum mechanics, the development of modernist and postmodern fiction, positivism, and finally works by Woolf, Faulkner, and Borges"--Provided by publisher. 000305322 650_0 $$aLiterature and science. 000305322 650_0 $$aScience in literature. 000305322 650_0 $$aFiction$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism. 000305322 85200 $$bgen$$hPN3352.S34$$iT55$$i2005 000305322 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029232.html 000305322 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:305322$$pGLOBAL_SET 000305322 980__ $$aBIB 000305322 980__ $$aBOOK 000305322 994__ $$aC0$$bISE