Fiction refracts science
Subtitle: modernist writers from Proust to Borges
By: Allen Thiher.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Literature and science.; Science in literature.; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures; title: What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg; title: Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology; title: Proust, Poincaré, and contingency; title: Kafka's search for laws; title: James Joyce and the laws of everything; title: Modernist thought experiments after Joyce; title: Conclusion : science and postmodernity.