Fiction Refracts Science : Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges.
Title:
Fiction Refracts Science : Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges.
Author:
Thiher, Allen.
ISBN:
9780826264695
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (311 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Brief Overview -- Introduction Prefatory Thoughts on Two or More Cultures -- Chapter One What the Modernists Knew about the History of Science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Chapter Two Robert Musil and the Dilemma of Modernist Epistemology -- Chapter Three Proust, Poincaré, and Contingency -- Chapter Four KafkaÌs Search for Laws -- Chapter Five James Joyce and the Laws of Everything -- Chapter Six Modernist Thought Experiments after Joyce -- Chapter Seven Conclusion Science and Postmodernity -- Bibliography -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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