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Time Travel : The Popular Philosophy of Narrative

Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative argues that time travel fiction is a narrative ""laboratory, "" in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling, and by extension about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity, are represented in the fo...

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Autor principal: Wittenberg, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative; 1. Macrological Fictions: Evolutionary Utopia and Time Travel (1887-1905); HISTORICAL INTERVAL I: The First Time Travel Story; 2. Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923-1941); HISTORICAL INTERVAL II: Three Phases of Time Travel/The Time Machine; 3. "The Big Time": Multiple Worlds, Narrative Viewpoint, and Superspace; 4. Paradox and Paratext: Picturing Narrative Theory; THEORETICAL INTERVAL: The Primacy of the Visual in Time Travel Narrative.
  • 5. Viewpoint-Over-Histories: Narrative Conservation in Star Trek6. Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Back to the Future; Conclusion: The Last Time Travel Story; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.