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...Steven Willemsen Abstract Narrative time loops can challenge key dimensions of story comprehension, including causality, chronology, agency, and continuity. But how can such temporally puzzling experiences contribute to narrative engagement? This essay argues that many contemporary loop narratives...

...Wibke Schniedermann Abstract This essay explores the racial-ideological undercurrents of the involuntary time loop (ITL) formula. It specifically looks at narrative form and other established formal elements such as typical plotlines, character constellations, and editing. The case study of a film...

...Brian Richardson Abstract Time loop narratives raise a number of interesting questions for narrative theory. There is the curious temporality of a work in which past, present, and future are rearranged. There is also the question of how such narratives progress, given that they are composed...

... of such readerly looping are interesting, this issue is more attuned to writerly looping—i.e., loops which are built into the narrative itself, regardless of any individual's reading habits. This distinction, however, is not as clear-cut as might appear at first glance. The rogue-like genre is arguably emblematic...

...Marco Caracciolo Abstract Cross-fertilizing narrative theory and work in the environmental humanities, this article argues that the loop as a narrative form holds special significance vis-à-vis the imagining of climate change in contemporary fiction. More specifically, the loop captures...

...Hilary Duffield Abstract The article analyses science fiction texts featuring time loops from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. Within its historical-environmental framework it proposes the term Anthropocene consciousness to refer to the historical process of accumulating knowledge, in both human...

...Melanie Kreitler Abstract This essay focuses on time loop films featuring a protagonist with a mental illness, arguing for these films’ cultural-political potential for reframing how viewers perceive neuro-non-normative subjectivities. To do so, the author introduces the concept of normative...

...—this article explores ways interactivity facilitates meaning making. In particular it explores the contribution of interactivity and its relationship with visual and/or auditory elements to convey a lived experience. This article presents an initial enquiry into the role of the interactive feedback loop...

..., including that of the time loop. Indeed, if there is any defining feature of autistic temporalities, it is simply that they deviate from normative temporal mores. Yet these disjunctures occur in a world which was built around neurotypical temporalities, so autistic survivance relies on some degree...

...Figure 1 Four spatial traces for nonlinear plots: discontinuous progression, the loop, the network, and the rhizome (author's creation). From Caracciolo 2021 , reprinted with permission. ...

... the larger structure of the film so that each poem is succeeded by a fade out and a moment of looped imagery set within a tiny frame-within-a-frame in the lower-right- hand corner of the image; the looping image continues until we hear the sound of railroad cars coupling and see the title of the next...

... an interviewer, “It's a very traumatic experience when some of your most core beliefs about the world start collapsing.” Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach celebrates the “strange loop” of human consciousness, the recursive way in which we continue to iterate and learn from experience. But as he points out...

... such as narrative. The loop constantly tightens: what users believe, expect, and desire to follow from “telling a story” in social networking sites shapes their behavior, and this behavior is bolstered by the sites themselves, influencing what, in turn, becomes the object of the users’ desire (see also Kangaskoski...

... be described as a recursive movement, a feed-forward and feed-backward loop (cf. Iser 2000: 83–112). Recursiveness differs from concepts of self-reference or self- reflection, metafiction or metalanguage, being closer to Johann Gottlieb Berensmeyer • Samuel Beckett’s Laws of Form 469...

... Ekphrastic Poetry 363 ensconced within both the material hardware and digital software that mechanically animate it, the code-object is both an agent and an actant that directs but also embodies the case-specific data structures and looping, random but deterministic inputs and outputs from hardware...