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, positivi...
| Основен автор: | Thiher, Allen, 1941- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=145574 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Fiction refracts science. |
| Резюме: |
"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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0826264697 9780826264695 |