Fiction refracts science (Record no. 193754)
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| fixed length control field | 02061nam a2200337 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 809/.9336 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Thiher, Allen, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Fiction refracts science |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Columbia : |
| Name of publisher | University of Missouri Press, |
| Year of publication | c2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 297 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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, Poincar�e, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Literature and science. |
| Topical Term | Science in literature. |
| Topical Term | Fiction |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10097282 |
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