Time travel : the popular philosophy of narrative /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wittenberg, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Time travel and the mechanics of narrative
  • Macrological fictions: evolutionary utopia and time travel (1887-1905)
  • Historical interval I: the first time travel story
  • Relativity, psychology, paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923-1941)
  • Historical interval II: three phases of time travel
  • the time machine
  • The big time: multiple worlds, narrative viewpoint, and superspace
  • Paradox and paratext: picturing narrative theory
  • Theoretical interval: 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.