modernist writers from Proust to Borges Thiher, Allen 1941- creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography Electronic books. mou Columbia University of Missouri Press c2005 2005 monographic eng

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xii, 297 p. ; 25 cm. "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. 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. Allen Thiher. Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Literature and science Science in literature Fiction 20th century History and criticism PN3352.S34 T55 2005eb 809/.9336 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10097282 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10097282 CaPaEBR 041213 20260707175552.0 ebr10097282