Einstein's Wake

Einstein's Wake
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 9780191583667
ISBN-13 : 0191583669
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Book Synopsis Einstein's Wake by : Michael H. Whitworth

Download or read book Einstein's Wake written by Michael H. Whitworth and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution in literary form and aesthetic consciousness called modernism arose as the physical sciences were revising their most fundamental concepts: space, time, matter, and the concept of 'science' itself. The coincidence has often been remarked upon in general terms, but rarely considered in detail. Einstein's Wake argues that the interaction of modernism and the 'new physics' is best understood by reference to the metaphors which structured these developments. These metaphors, widely disseminated in the popular science writing of the period, provided a language with which modernist writers could articulate their responses to the experience of modernity. Beginning with influential aspects of nineteenth-century physics, Einstein's Wake qualifies the notion that Einstein alone was responsible for literary 'relativity'; it goes on to examine the fine detail of his legacy in literary appropriations of scientific metaphors, with particular attention to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Eliot.


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