Fiction Refracts Science

Fiction Refracts Science
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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9780826264695
ISBN-13 : 0826264697
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Book Synopsis Fiction Refracts Science by : Allen Thiher

Download or read book Fiction Refracts Science written by Allen Thiher and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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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