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.