Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges /

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"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, positivi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Literature and science.
Science in literature.
Fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Littérature et sciences.
Sciences dans la littérature.
Roman > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Fiction
Literature and science
Science in literature
Letterkunde.
Exacte wetenschappen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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