Time travel : the popular philosophy of narrative /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.