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  1. Fiction Refracts Science
    Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges
    Author: Thiher, Allen
    Published: 2005; © 2005
    Publisher:  University of Missouri Press, Columbia

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780826264695; 9780826215802
    Subjects: Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and science; Science in literature; Naturwissenschaften; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource (311 pages)
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  2. Fiction refracts science
    modernist writers from Proust to Borges
    Author: Thiher, Allen
    Published: c2005
    Publisher:  University of Missouri Press, Columbia

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0826215807; 0826264697; 9780826215802; 9780826264695
    Subjects: Littérature et sciences; Sciences dans la littérature; Roman / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Letterkunde; Exacte wetenschappen; Literatur; Literature and science; Science in literature; Fiction; Literatur; Naturwissenschaften
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 297 p.)
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    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

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index

    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

    "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