Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges /

Main Author: Thiher, Allen, 1941-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10097282
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