The Resource Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges, Allen Thiher
Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges, Allen Thiher
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The item Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges, Allen Thiher represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages)
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9780826264695
- Label
- Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges
- Title
- Fiction refracts science
- Title remainder
- modernist writers from Proust to Borges
- Statement of responsibility
- Allen Thiher
- Subject
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- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Exacte wetenschappen
- Fiction
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Letterkunde
- Literature and science
- Science in literature
- Science in literature
- Sciences dans la littérature
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
- Literature and science
- Littérature et sciences
- Roman -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Thiher, Allen
- Dewey number
- 809/.9336
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PN3352.S34
- LC item number
- T55 2005eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Literature and science
- Science in literature
- Fiction
- Littérature et sciences
- Sciences dans la littérature
- Roman
- TRAVEL
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Fiction
- Literature and science
- Science in literature
- Letterkunde
- Exacte wetenschappen
- Label
- Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges, Allen Thiher
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity
- Control code
- 64711713
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780826264695
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)64711713
- System details
- 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.
- Label
- Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges, Allen Thiher
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity
- Control code
- 64711713
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780826264695
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)64711713
- System details
- 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.
Subject
- 1900-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic book
- Exacte wetenschappen
- Fiction
- Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Letterkunde
- Literature and science
- Science in literature
- Science in literature
- Sciences dans la littérature
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
- Literature and science
- Littérature et sciences
- Roman -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
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