Time travel : the popular philosophy of narrative /
Wittenberg, David.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-596) 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.
Time perception in literature.
Time travel in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Literature