Fiction in the Quantum UniverseUniv of North Carolina Press, 1992 - 282 ページ 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" |
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ACTUALISM Fiction in the Quantum Universe | 1 |
Gravitys Rainbow and the Fiction of Quantum Continuity | 27 |
The Public Burning and the Accidents of History | 66 |
J R and the Matter of Energy | 93 |
LETTERS and the Relative Frame | 124 |
Cats Eye and the Subjective Author | 159 |
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