02707cam a2200397 i 4500 18159256 BD-DhUL 20161212143826.0 140521s2014 enka b 001 0 eng 2014019726 9781137393746 (hardback) DLC eng DLC rda rda BD-DhUL pcc e-uk--- PR478.M6 E28 2014 820.9112 23 BUM LIT004120 bisacsh Ebury, Katherine, 1986- author. Modernism and cosmology : absurd lights / Katherine Ebury, University of Sheffield, UK. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. vii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-204) and index. Machine generated contents note: -- 1.Introduction: Cosmic Modernism 2.Yeatsian Cosmology3.Joycean Cosmologies4.Beyond the Rainbow: Spectroscopy in the Wake5.The Beckettian Cosmos6.Stars and Atoms in 'The Trilogy' Epilogue - International Modernism Bibliography Index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. English literature 20th century History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) Cosmology in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Cover image http://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/746/9781137393746/image/lgcover.9781137393746.jpg 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK xk14 2014-05-21 xk14 2014-05-21 ONIX 134538 134538 0 0 ddc 0 820_911200000000000_BUM 0 NFIC 252609 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-12 820.9112 BUM 2507 2016-12-12 2016-12-12 BK