'Absurd lights' : early twentieth century cosmology and the modernist universe
This thesis examines the impact of early twentieth century physics, particularly the sciences of astronomy and cosmology, on the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. I seek to find and make critical use of the traces of Einstein’s cosmic revolution in the aesthetic and philosophical...
Main Author: | Ebury, Katherine |
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Other Authors: | Attridge, Derek |
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University of York
2012
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557237 |
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