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Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges /

"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, positivi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Online Access:Table of contents
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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.
Physical Description:xii, 297 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.
ISBN:0826215807 (alk. paper)