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"This book looks at the use of language in science and in the circulation of scienctific concepts in society at large. More precisely, the book looks at the difficulties physicists faced regarding the use of language while creating quantum mechanics, with the use of quantum concepts in literary criticism and in literature, and with the use of these concepts by the New Age and Post New Age inclined. The principles of quantum physics--and the strange phenomena they describe--originate in and are expressed most precisely with highly abstract algebraic equations. The main challenge posed by quantum phenomena does not lie, however, in its mathematics; it lies instead in how these phenomena strain the limits of comprehension. This book explores the elusive nature of the quantum domain, its problematic relationship to representation in language, and its cultural migration over time"--

Quantum theory --- Physics --- Quantum theory in literature. --- Philosophy. --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science --- PHYSICAL SCIENCES/Physics --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General

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Dans la métamorphose radicale de notre rapport au monde qu'a supposée la postmodernité, la physique quantique a joué un rôle fondamental. Remettant en cause les principes de la physique classique, elle a servi de terreau fertile à l'élaboration des grandes théories du XXe siècle, modifiant profondément notre perception des phénomènes de la vie quotidienne et influençant la création et les grands courants de pensée actuels.

Drama --- Quantum theory in literature --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Théorie quantique dans la littérature --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Théorie quantique dans la littérature

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In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. The changed physical world appears in both content and form in some of the most ambitious recent fiction, which Strehle names "actualism" after the observations of Werner Heisenberg. Within that framework she explores the meditations on actuality in Pynchon, Coover, Gaddis, Barth, Atwood, and Barthelme. Although important recent narratives diverge markedly from realistic practice, this book claims that they do so in order to reflect more acutely on what we now understand as real. According to Strehle, the actualists balance attention to questions of art with an engaged meditation on the external, actual world. Reality is no longer realistic; in the new physical or quantum universe, it is discontinuous, energetic, relative, statistical, subjectively seen, and uncertainly known--all terms taken from the new physics. Actualist fiction is characterized by incompletions, indeterminacy, and "open" endings unsatisfying to the readerly wish for fulfilled promises and completed patterns. Gravity's Rainbow, for example, ends not with a period but with a dash. Realistic novels typically construct solid, believable, particularized environments, but actualist texts combine the plausible and the strange. Thus a recognizable campus like Berkeley or Cornell has a suburb called San Narciso or Zembla. Strehle makes the point that these innovations in narrative form reflect in allied ways upon twentieth-century history, politics, and science. Arguing that the perception of a changed reality reaches into philosophy, psychology, literary theory, and other areas of inquiry, the book advances a pluralistic view of the meaning of contemporary fiction. A final chapter extends the discussion beyond the North American borders to African, South American, and European texts, suggesting a global community of writers whose fiction belongs in the quantum universe.

Fysica in de literatuur --- Physics in literature --- Physique dans la littérature --- Quanta [Théorie des ] dans la littérature --- Quantum theory in literature --- Quantumtheorie in de literatuur --- American fiction --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Literature and science --- United States --- History --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Coover, Robert Lowell --- Gaddis, William --- Barth, John --- Physics in literature. --- Quantum theory in literature. --- English --- American Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Roman américain --- Postmodernisme et littérature --- Littérature et science --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- États-Unis --- Histoire

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This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf's novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific knowledge: BBC scientific radio broadcasts. By analyzing this unstudied primary material, it traces the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity and highlights a single concept that is shared across multiple disciplines in the modernist period: the idea that modern science undermined individualized conceptions of the self. It broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism and radio, modernism and science, and demonstrates the importance of science to Woolf's later novels.

English literature --- Science in literature. --- Physics in literature. --- Quantum theory in literature. --- Radio in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Literature and science --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- Woolf, Virginia --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia,