| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Literature and science.
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Science in literature.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst00923709
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Literature and science. (OCoLC)fst01000093
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Science in literature. (OCoLC)fst01108731
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Letterkunde.
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Exacte wetenschappen.
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thiher, Allen, 1941- Fiction refracts science. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005 0826215807 (DLC) 2004029232 (OCoLC)57391927 |
| ISBN |
0826264697 (electronic bk.) |
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9780826264695 (electronic bk.) |
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