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1032662336 epub Dure as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (18821941) and Mary Butts (18901937). It presents an overview of critical approaches that focus on time in Woolfs novels, and that foreground Bergson in their analyses of Woolf. It then examines how Woolfs formal experimentation, and theorisation of time, in Jacobs Room (1922) and Mrs Dalloway (1925) relates to Bergsons temporal theories. This is followed by a discussion on the role Bergsons thinking played in the early formulation of Buttss ideas of time, and an analysis of how Bergsons ideas emerge in the short story Angele au Couvent (1923), concluding by highlighting points of contrast in the engagements of Woolf and Butts. The book then documents the growth of Buttss interest in Einsteins ideas and shows how she amalgamates these with Bergsons thinking in her journals and in the most intense of her fictional engagement with Einsteins ideas, the novel Read more