Fiction Refracts Science: Modernist Writers from Proust to BorgesUniversity of Missouri Press, 2005 - 297 páginas "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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| 18 | |
Chapter Two Robert Musil and the Dilemma of Modernist | 59 |
Chapter Three Proust Poincaré and Contingency | 100 |
Chapter Four Kafkas Search for Laws | 135 |
Chapter Five James Joyce and the Laws of Everything | 172 |
Chapter Six Modernist Thought Experiments after Joyce | 211 |
Science and Postmodernity | 246 |
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Fiction Refracts Science: Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges Allen Thiher Visualização parcial - 2005 |
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Absalom artistic Austrian axioms belief Borges causality century certainty characters classical Combray consciousness contemporary cosmos critique cultural matrix Dalloway demonstration describe dialectical Dilemma of Modernist discourse Einstein Eisendle ence epistemic epistemology example existence experimental fact Faulkner Fiction Refracts Science Finnegans Wake formal framework geometry Heisenberg human idea imagination interpretation James Joyce Joyce's Kafka knowledge language literary literature logical Mach Mach's madness mathematics means metaphor metaphysical mind modern Modernist Epistemology Modernists Knew myth narrative narrator's nature non-Euclidean geometry novel offer parable paradox parody particles Pascal Pascalian past perception perhaps philosophical physicist physics Poincaré positivism positivist postmodern Proust Proust’s narrator quantum mechanics quest question reader realism reality realm relations relativity theory representation revelation Robert Musil scientific scientist seems sense space temporal things thought experiment three body problem tion Törless truth Ulrich Ulysses underdetermined unity universe wants Woolf writers Young Törless