Fiction refracts science: modernist writers from Proust to Borges
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1. Verfasser: Thiher, Allen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Columbia University of Missouri Press c2005
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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
"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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 297 p.)
ISBN:0826215807
0826264697
9780826215802
9780826264695

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