Time travel [electronic resource] : the popular philosophy of narrative / David Wittenberg.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (288 p.)ISBN:- 9780823250271
- 809/.93384 23
- PN56.T5 W58 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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