Title: Fiction refracts science
Subtitle: modernist writers from Proust to Borges
First published: 2005
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.
Subjects: Literature and science, History and criticism, Science in literature, Fiction, Fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PN3352.S34 T55 2005