Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges /

"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, a...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
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Crynodeb:"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.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:xii, 297 p.
Llyfryddiaeth:Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.