{"product_id":"time-travel-the-popular-philosophy-of-narrative-paperback","title":"Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Wittenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, the book \u003cstrong\u003elinks innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science\u003c\/strong\u003e, from evolutionary biology in the late 1800s, through\u003cbr\u003erelativity 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book \u003cstrong\u003ecovers work by well-known time travel writers such as H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as pulp fiction writers of the 1920s through the 1940s, popular and avant-garde postwar science fiction, television shows such as \u003cstrong\u003e\"The Twilight Zone\"\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003e\"Star Trek,\"\u003c\/strong\u003e and\u003cbr\u003ecurrent cinema. Literature, film, and TV are read alongside \u003cstrong\u003etheoretical work ranging from Einstein, Schrodinger, and Stephen Hawking to Gerard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze\u003c\/strong\u003e. Wittenberg argues that even the most mainstream audiences of popular time travel fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with many of the same\u003cbr\u003equestions about temporality, identity, and history that concern literary theorists, media and film scholars, and philosophers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Wittenberg\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703748915507,"sku":"9780823249978","price":66.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/59978Ge8gj9780823249978.webp?v=1763337671","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/time-travel-the-popular-philosophy-of-narrative-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}