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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Fiction refracts science
    sub title: modernist writers from Proust to Borges
  name:
    name part: Thiher, Allen
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mou
    place:
      place term: Columbia
    publisher: University of Missouri Press
    date issued: c2005
    date issued: 2005
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: xii, 297 p.
  abstract: "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.
  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.
  note: Allen Thiher.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Literature and science
  subject:
    topic: Science in literature
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN3352.S34 T55 2005eb
  classification: 809/.9336
  identifier: 0826215807 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2004029232
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 041213
    record change date: 20171002054055.0
    record identifier: 0000081052