Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / / Allen Thiher.
"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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 297 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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, Poincare, and contingency
- Kafka's search for laws
- James Joyce and the laws of everything
- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce
- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.