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A monochromatic line graph with horizontal x-axis labeled “Syuzhet” and vertical y-axis labeled “Fabula”; five solid parallel lines at a narrow angle from the y-axis are evenly spaced along the x-axis; dashed lines connect the top point of each solid line with the bottom point of the next one to the right.

Template time map for diegetically framed time loops.

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in Introduction: Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative > Poetics Today
Published: 01 March 2025
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A monochromatic line graph with horizontal x-axis labeled “Syuzhet” and vertical y-axis labeled “Character’ s timeline”; five solid parallel lines at a narrow angle from the x-axis are evenly spaced along the y-axis; vertical dashed lines connect the beginning of the five solid lines on the left and their end point on the right.

Template time map for character-framed time loops.

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in Introduction: Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative > Poetics Today
Published: 01 March 2025
Figure 2 Template time map for character-framed time loops. More
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Introduction: Time Loops, Temporal Uncertainty, and Problem-Solving in Narrative

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Wibke Schniedermann, Steven Willemsen, Sean A. Yeager
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557569
Published: 01 March 2025
...Figure 1 Template time map for diegetically framed time loops. ...
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Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster

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Hilary Duffield
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557601
Published: 01 March 2025
...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...
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How Two Distant Strangers Exposes the Racial Blind Spots of the Involuntary Time Loop

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Wibke Schniedermann
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 53–75.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557577
Published: 01 March 2025
...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...
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Vicious Circles: Circular Fiction and Time Loop Narratives

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Brian Richardson
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 15–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557585
Published: 01 March 2025
...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...
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Narrative Loops and Climate Futures: A Form for Uncertain Times

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Marco Caracciolo
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 151–169.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557593
Published: 01 March 2025
... the uncertainty and moral stakes of climate change as a planetary event that affirms human societies’ entanglement with the nonhuman but also disrupts their projection into a stable future. The starting point is Jesse Kellerman's time loop narrative Controller , which presents the reader with three alternative...
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Kept in the Loop: Narrative Play and Epistemic Emotions

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Steven Willemsen
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 29–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557561
Published: 01 March 2025
...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...
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Looping Minds: Reclaiming Agency beyond a Normative Chronology

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Melanie Kreitler
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 105–125.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11564127
Published: 01 March 2025
...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...
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Kakokairos : A Not-Altogether-Unserious Theory of Time, Language, and Autism

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Sean A. Yeager
Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 127–149.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-11557609
Published: 01 March 2025
..., 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...
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A graph shows the development of three lines over time: (1) the participants’ average reported interest, (2) their average reported confusion in the single-rating condition, and (3) their average reported confusion in the dual-rating condition. The ratings are displayed on the y-axis, ranging from 0 to 100. The x-axis represents viewing time, on which four looping moments in the story are identified. Looping moments 1, 2, and 4 are accompanied by clear spikes in both lines, indicating average confusion, which rise from about 50 to 60 to around 65 to 75. These moments are also accompanied by moderate rises in interest, which constitute the peak moments of reported average interest throughout the film, at around 75 to 80. Looping moment 3 does not correspond to a rise in average reported confusion, but does correspond to a spike in average interest. Interest, in general, rises starkly at the start of the viewing and remains high throughout, between 70 and 80.

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Figure 2 Average Interest and Confusion (in both the single and dual-rating condition) for all participants mapped over time. The vertical lines indicate loops 1 – 4. More
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Running and Clicking: Future Narratives in Film

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 305–307.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160757
Published: 01 September 2015
... to designate filmic FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film Groundhog Day [1993 In this type of plot the protagonist returns more than once to the same...
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Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 308–310.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160769
Published: 01 September 2015
... use of running to designate filmic FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film Groundhog Day [1993 In this type of plot the protagonist returns more...
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Text + Work: The Menard Case

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 310–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160781
Published: 01 September 2015
.... Hence Schenk’s metaphoric use of running to designate filmic FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film Groundhog Day [1993 In this type of plot...
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Fiction and Narrative

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 313–314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160793
Published: 01 September 2015
... FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film Groundhog Day [1993 In this type of plot the protagonist returns more than once to the same point in time...
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Literature as Dialogue: Invitations Offered and Negotiated

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 315–318.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160805
Published: 01 September 2015
... use of running to designate filmic FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film Groundhog Day [1993 In this type of plot the protagonist returns more...
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The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 318–320.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160817
Published: 01 September 2015
... to meet her deadline dominates the movie. Hence Schenk’s metaphoric use of running to designate filmic FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film...
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Beyond Classical Narration: Transmedial and Unnatural Challenges

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2015) 36 (3): 320–324.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-3160829
Published: 01 September 2015
... the movie. Hence Schenk’s metaphoric use of running to designate filmic FNs in this book. An interesting point Schenk raises with regard to Lola Rennt is that it might be viewed as featuring a “time-loop” plot (prototypically exemplified by Harold Ramis’s film Groundhog Day [1993 In this type of plot...
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Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2001) 22 (4): 864–866.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-22-4-864
Published: 01 December 2001
... of the book consist of analyses of specific novels.The second part, ‘‘Time Forks and Time Loops deals with Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela (Hopscotch), Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Topologie d’une cité fantôme, and Samuel Beckett’s HowItIs. The analysis of Rayuela enables Heise to ex- amine the question...
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Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative

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Eyal Segal
Poetics Today (2014) 35 (3): 489–491.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2817813
Published: 01 September 2014
..., particularly with regard to its being viewed as a fourth dimension, alongside the three spatial ones. During this period, time travel already displays “formal radicalism” (56) and starts operating as a narrato- logical laboratory, particularly in the paradoxical stories of the “time loop” or “closed causal...
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