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David Wittenberg Time Travel (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative
- Publication Name
- Time Travel
- Title
- Time Travel
- Subtitle
- The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0823249972
- EAN
- 9780823249978
- ISBN
- 9780823249978
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Social Science, Performing Arts, Philosophy
- Topic
- Film / General, Media Studies, General, Semiotics & Theory
- Release Date
- 31/12/2012
- Release Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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This 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," and current 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.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823249972
ISBN-13
9780823249978
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117140435
Product Key Features
Book Title
Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Media Studies, General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Performing Arts, Philosophy
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr830.S35
Reviews
"A fruitful cross-pollination of theory and popular fiction, this is at once a careful genre study and a wide-ranging disquisition on narratology."-Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside "An ambitious, synthetic book. Wittenberg's brilliance lies in the comprehensive clarity with which he maps different discursive territories, and grasps how he can use time travel fiction to invent and practice, simultaneously, 'a popular philosophy of narrative.'"-Paul A. Harris, Loyola Marymount University "This is one of the rare academic books that are worth reading all the way through." -Pro Rege "David Wittenberg's remarkable book seeks to account for our enduring fascination with the paradoxes of time-travel storues." -Science Fiction Studies "In sum, 'Time Travel' offers several rewards to the reader." -Time's Books "iTime Travelr is extremely well research and has a lively style, which is a pleasure to read. Academically, this book is a vital source for anyone researching or studying time-travel literature; for those with a general interest in the theme will enjoy learning about how time travel literature has evolved and how, most importantly, it has engaged us as readers."-Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction "...[a] stimulating contribution to literary theory."-London Review of Books, "A fruitful cross-pollination of theory and popular fiction, this is at once a careful genre study and a wide-ranging disquisition on narratology." -----Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside, "An ambitious, synthetic book. Wittenberg's brilliance lies in the comprehensive clarity with which he maps different discursive territories, and grasps how he can use time travel fiction to invent and practice, simultaneously, 'a popular philosophy of narrative.'" -----Paul A. Harris, Loyola Marymount University, Time Travel is extremely well research and has a lively style, which is a pleasure to read. Academically, this book is a vital source for anyone researching or studying time-travel literature; for those with a general interest in the theme will enjoy learning about how time travel literature has evolved and how, most importantly, it has engaged us as readers., "A fruitful cross-pollination of theory and popular fiction, this is at once a careful genre study and a wide-ranging disquisition on narratology."-Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside "An ambitious, synthetic book. Wittenberg's brilliance lies in the comprehensive clarity with which he maps different discursive territories, and grasps how he can use time travel fiction to invent and practice, simultaneously, 'a popular philosophy of narrative.'"-Paul A. Harris, Loyola Marymount University, "A fruitful cross-pollination of theory and popular fiction, this is at once a careful genre study and a wide-ranging disquisition on narratology." Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside "An ambitious, synthetic book. Wittenberg's brilliance lies in the comprehensive clarity with which he maps different discursive territories, and grasps how he can use time travel fiction to invent and practice, simultaneously, 'a popular philosophy of narrative.'" Paul A. Harris, Loyola Marymount University, "A fruitful cross-pollination of theory and popular fiction, this is at once a careful genre study and a wide-ranging disquisition on narratology."-Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside "An ambitious, synthetic book. Wittenberg's brilliance lies in the comprehensive clarity with which he maps different discursive territories, and grasps how he can use time travel fiction to invent and practice, simultaneously, 'a popular philosophy of narrative.'"-Paul A. Harris, Loyola Marymount University "This is one of the rare academic books that are worth reading all the way through." -Pro Rege "David Wittenberg's remarkable book seeks to account for our enduring fascination with the paradoxes of time-travel storues." -Science Fiction Studies "In sum, 'Time Travel' offers several rewards to the reader." -Time's Books "iTime Travelr is extremely well research and has a lively style, which is a pleasure to read. Academically, this book is a vital source for anyone researching or studying time-travel literature; for those with a general interest in the theme will enjoy learning about how time travel literature has evolved and how, most importantly, it has engaged us as readers."-Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, "A fruitful cross-pollination of theory and popular fiction, this is at once a careful genre study and a wide-ranging disquisition on narratology." --Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2012-029101
Dewey Decimal
809/.93384
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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