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100 1 a| Thiher, Allen,d| 1941-=| ^A35322;

245 10 a| Fiction refracts science :b| modernist writers from Proust to Borges /c| Allen Thiher.;

300 a| xii, 297 pages ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

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.;

650 0 a| Literature and science.=| ^A16137;

650 0 a| Science in literature.=| ^A140403;

650 0 a| Fictiony| 20th centuryx| History and criticism.=| ^A35062;

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Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / Allen Thiher.

Author/creator	Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005.
Description	xii, 297 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subjects	Literature and science. Science in literature. Fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.

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.
Abstract	"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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
LCCN	2004029232
ISBN	0826215807 (alk. paper)

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