New physics, old metaphysics: quantum and quotidian in Ian McEwan's The Child in Time

This article investigates McEwan's poignant figurative use of ideas from the New Physics, his testing of their availability to quotidian reality, and determines to what extent and with what results—wonder, illusion, dementia, psychosis—the protagonist's behaviour is affected by a quantu...

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Main Author: Wright, Derek
Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Language:eng
Published: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10045/6005
http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.1997.10.16
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