Time travel : the popular philosophy of narrative / David Wittenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wittenberg, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Time perception in literature.

Time travel in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work argues that time travel fiction is a narrative 'laboratory', a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling are represented in the form of literal devices and plots.

Contents:

""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-5250-7

0-8232-5027-X