02173nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10097282 CaPaEBR 20260707184526.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 041213s2005 mou sb s001 0 eng 2004029232 0826215807 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)607074621 PN3352.S34 T55 2005eb 809/.9336 22 155897 127149 Thiher, Allen, 1941- 88844 Fiction refracts science [electronic resource] : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / Allen Thiher. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005. xii, 297 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index. 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. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Literature and science. 91347 Science in literature. 88846 Fiction 20th century History and criticism. 40723 Electronic books. local 190 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10097282 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 155897 127149