Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative.

Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative.

This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling--and by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity--are represented in the form of literal dev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wittenberg, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bronx : Fordham University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Time perception in literature.
Time travel in literature.
Literature > Philosophy
Time perception in literature
Time travel in literature
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""for Lara and Leela""; ""Introduction: Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative""; ""Macrological Fictions: Evolutionary Utopia and Time Travel (1887â€? 1905)""; ""The First Time Travel Story""; ""Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923â€? 1941)""; ""Three Phases of Time Travel / The Time Machine""; ""“The Big Timeâ€?: Multiple Worlds, Narrative Viewpoint, and Superspace""; ""Paradox and Paratext: Picturing Narrative Theory""; ""The Primacy of the Visual in Time Travel Narrative""
  • ""Viewpoint- Over- Histories: Narrative Conservation in Star Trek""""Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Back to the Future""; ""Conclusion: The Last Time Travel Story""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""

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