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001 13813168
001 0116405271580
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008 041213s2005 mou b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2004029232
020 $a0826215807 (alk. paper)
035 $a(Sirsi) l2004029232
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
040 $aOPET$beng
050 00 $aPN 3352 .S34 T55 2005
082 00 $a809/.9336$222
100 1 $aThiher, Allen,$d1941-
245 10 $aFiction refracts science :$bmodernist writers from Proust to Borges /$cAllen Thiher.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$cc2005.
300 $axii, 297 p. ;$c25 cm.
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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aLiterature and science.
650 0 $aScience in literature.
650 0 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.