Fiction Refracts Science : Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges.
Thiher, Allen.
Fiction Refracts Science : Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (311 pages)
Intro -- 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.
9780826264695
Literature and science.
Electronic books.
PN3352.S34.T55 2005
809/.9336
Fiction Refracts Science : Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (311 pages)
Intro -- 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.
9780826264695
Literature and science.
Electronic books.
PN3352.S34.T55 2005
809/.9336