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03174aam a2200493 i 4500 001 9D6359F6AB7211E4A1AC46C0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20150203010132 008 140521s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014019726 020 $a 1137393742 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137393746 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)873725510 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d EYM $d COO $d ZCU $d YUS $d CHVBK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR478.M6 $b E28 2014 082 00 $a 820.9/112 $2 23 084 $a LIT004120 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Ebury, Katherine, $d 1986- $e author. 245 10 $a Modernism and cosmology : $b absurd lights / $c Katherine Ebury, University of Sheffield, UK. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2014. 300 $a vii, 210 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "In Modernism and Cosmology, Yeats, Joyce and Beckett are examined as test cases for modernist aesthetic responses to a new cosmology. Katherine Ebury teases out the reception of Einstein's cosmology in modernist literary culture, both locally and globally. Detailed close readings of the key works of Yeats, Joyce and Beckett are used to develop alternative reading models of texts such as Finnegans Wake and 'The Trilogy'; within these texts we find multiple references to binary stars, nebulae, the Big Bang Theory, the space-time continuum and the Expanding Universe and many other key concepts of the 'mysterious universe' of the new physics, providing insights into their difficulty, absurdity and beauty. Careful attention to contemporary popularisations allows us to achieve a measure of the intellectual toolbox with which these modernist writers equipped themselves and to understand their creative transformations of this material"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction: Cosmic Modernism -- 2. Yeatsian Cosmology -- 3. Joycean Cosmologies -- 4. Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in the Wake -- 5. The Beckettian Cosmos -- 6. Stars and Atoms in 'The Trilogy' -- Epilogue: International Modernism. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 650 0 $a Cosmology in literature. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Cosmology in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00880616 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Modernism (Literature) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01024455 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Literatur. $0 (DE-588)4035964-5 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Moderne. $0 (DE-588)4039827-4 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Kosmologie. $0 (DE-588)4320080-1 $2 gnd 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i ebook version $z 9781137393753 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171230055634.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826111053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D6359F6AB7211E4A1AC46C0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search