Time Travel : : The Popular Philosophy of Narrative / / David Wittenberg.
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 devi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Introduction
- 2. Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923- 1941)
- Historical Interval II: Three Phases of Time Travel / The Time Machine
- Introduction
- 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
- Introduction
- 5. Viewpoint- Over- Histories: Narrative Conservation in Star Trek
- 6. Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Back to the Future
- Conclusion: The Last Time Travel Story
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index