02074nam a2200337 a 4500001001200000003000800012005001700020006001900037007001500056008004100071010001700112020002800129040002100157035002100178050002700199082001800226100002600244245011200270260005400382300002600436504006400462505039900526520037700925533015201302650002801454650002701482650005001509655002901559710001701588856013101605ebr10097282CaPaEBR20260707184526.0m        u        cr cn|||||||||041213s2005    mou     sb   s001 0 eng    z  2004029232  z0826215807 (alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)60707462114aPN3352.S34bT55 2005eb04a809/.93362221 aThiher, Allen,d1941-10aFiction refracts scienceh[electronic resource] :bmodernist writers from Proust to Borges /cAllen Thiher.  aColumbia :bUniversity of Missouri Press,cc2005.  axii, 297 p. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.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.  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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2009.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aLiterature and science. 0aScience in literature. 0aFictiony20th centuryxHistory and criticism. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10097282zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view