Time travel [[electronic resource] ] : the popular philosophy of narrative / / David Wittenberg

• Autore: Wittenberg David
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93384
• Soggetto topico: Literature - Philosophy; Narration (Rhetoric); Time perception in literature; Time travel in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""for Lara and Leela""; ""Introduction: Time Travel and the Mechanics of Narrative""; ""Macrological Fictions: Evolutionary Utopia and Time Travel (1887â€? 1905)""; ""The First Time Travel Story""; ""Relativity, Psychology, Paradox: Wertenbaker to Heinlein (1923â€? 1941)""; ""Three Phases of Time Travel / The Time Machine""; ""“The Big Timeâ€?: 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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Time travel
• ISBN: 0-8232-5250-7; 0-8232-5027-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788213503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II