TY - BOOK AU - Thiher,Allen TI - Fiction Refracts Science: Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges SN - 9780826264695 AV - PN3352.S34.T55 2005 U1 - 809/.9336 PY - 2005/// CY - Columbia PB - University of Missouri Press KW - Literature and science KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3570846 ER -