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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823273348
035 _a(DE-B1597)554959
035 _a(OCoLC)973187279
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082 0 4 _a809.93384
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWittenberg, David
_eautore
245 1 0 _aTime Travel :
_bThe Popular Philosophy of Narrative /
_cDavid Wittenberg.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative --
_t1. Macrological Fictions: Evolutionary Utopia and Time Travel (1887- 1905) --
_tHistorical Interval I: The First Time Travel Story --
_tIntroduction --
_t2. Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923- 1941) --
_tHistorical Interval II: Three Phases of Time Travel / The Time Machine --
_tIntroduction --
_t3. "The Big Time": Multiple Worlds, Narrative Viewpoint, and Superspace --
_t4. Paradox and Paratext: Picturing Narrative Theory --
_tTheoretical Interval: The Primacy of the Visual in Time Travel Narrative --
_tIntroduction --
_t5. Viewpoint- Over- Histories: Narrative Conservation in Star Trek --
_t6. Oedipus Multiplex, or, The Subject as a Time Travel Film: Back to the Future --
_tConclusion: The Last Time Travel Story --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aThis 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 devices and plots.Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, the book links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science, from evolutionary biology in the late 1800s, through relativity and quantum physics in the mid-20th century, to more recent "multiverse" cosmologies. Wittenberg shows how increasing awareness of new scientific models leads to surprising innovations in the literary "time machine," which evolves from a "vehicle" used chiefly for sociopolitical commentary into a psychological and narratological device capable of exploring with great sophistication the temporal structure and significance of subjects, viewpoints, and historical events.The book covers work by well-known time travel writers such as H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison, as well as pulp fiction writers of the 1920s through the 1940s, popular and avant-garde postwar science fiction, television shows such as "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek," andcurrent cinema. Literature, film, and TV are read alongside theoretical work ranging from Einstein, Schrödinger, and Stephen Hawking to Gérard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze. Wittenberg argues that even the most mainstream audiences of popular time travel fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with many of the same questions about temporality, identity, and history that concern literary theorists, media and film scholars, and philosophers.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aLiterature
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aNarration (Rhetoric).
650 0 _aTime perception in literature.
650 0 _aTime travel in literature.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 4 _aPhilosophy & Theory.
650 4 _aScience Studies.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / General.
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653 _afilm.
653 _anarrative theory.
653 _anarratology.
653 _aphilosophy of time.
653 _apopular culture.
653 _ascience fiction.
653 _atelevision.
653 _atime travel.
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