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Contents Acknowledgments ix A Brief Overview xi Introduction: Prefatory Thoughts on Two or More Cultures 00 Chapter One. What the Modernists Knew about the History of Science from Pascal to Heisenberg 00 Chapter Two. Robert Musil and the Dilemma of Modernist Epistemology 00 Chapter Three. Proust, Poincaré, and Contingency 00 Chapter Four. Kafka's Search for Laws 00 Chapter Five. James Joyce and the Laws of Everything 00 Chapter Six. Modernist Thought Experiments after Joyce 00 Chapter Seven. Conclusion: Science and Postmodernity 00 Bibliography 00 Index 00
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Literature and science.
Science in literature.
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.