The Cosmic Web
Subtitle: Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the 20th Century
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: September 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801492907
Subjects: Encyclopaedias & Reference Works; Literary studies: general; General; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY has seen a profound transformation in the ground of its thought, a change catalyzed and validated by relativity theory, quantum mechanics, and particle physics.