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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""for Lara and Leela""; ""Introduction: Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative""; ""Macrological Fictions: Evolutionary Utopia and Time Travel (1887� 1905)""; ""The First Time Travel Story""; ""Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923� 1941)""; ""Three Phases of Time Travel / The Time Machine""; ""“The Big Time�: 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""