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"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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Fiction refracts science: modernist writers from Proust to Borges
2005, University of Missouri Press
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0826215807 9780826215802
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
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