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...Eyal Segal This article discusses time travel stories as being of particular interest to narratology: they play by their nature with the temporality of the storyworld itself (rather than with that of its narration, which is the type of time maneuver that narratology has mostly privileged...

...Eyal Segal Wittenberg David , Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative . New York : Fordham University Press , 2013 . ix + 306 pp . © 2015 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2015 New Books at a Glance Deborah Cartmell, A Companion to Literature, Film...

... science and cultural artifacts, concerning the threat posed to life on the planet by human impacts. One notable form of time-loop pattern, which is particularly strong in the 1980s, uses plots of enhanced fictional agency in which time-traveling characters, often retroactively, prevent anthropogenic...

... types of story common in fantasy and science fiction: the narrative of transworld exploration, the narrative of alternate history, and the time-travel narrative. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Ǻberg, Claes 1989 “On Characterizing Possible Worlds of Physics: Discussion of J...

... in the loop, namely, his dog and his date. Interpersonal bonds and relationships (including those to a pet) are the sources of what little hope and defiance remain. Copyright © 2025 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2025 time loop time travel anti-Black police violence activist...

... Hospital. (Gilliam 1995 : 00:01:01) Before viewers are introduced to Cole, the text presents him and his time-travel narrative as “paranoid schizophrenic,” priming them to understand his experiences as symptomatic of mental illness. And, indeed, much of the film affirms this interpretive stance...

... as exemplifications of their own kind erases their“realness,” turning them into images in the public's perception. However, a totalization of the performance and of the display of circus traveling reifies the animal and human images and the circus image, with the effect of placing them out of social time...

...David-Antoine Williams Two decades have passed since Joseph Brodsky used his Nobel address to advance the idea that “aesthetics is the mother of ethics.” Yet despite the increasing prominence of ethics in literary studies during this time, very little has been written to elucidate his claim. One...

..., and travelers, in forging 4 an orientalist dimension to the cultural idea of Edwardian South Africa. The primary focus of this essay is thus on the interpretation of the Cape and at times of the general idea of South Africa as ‘‘Mediterranean...

... DOI 10.1215/03335372-2817804 David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. ix 1 306 pp. In this book, David Wittenberg aims at providing a history of time travel fiction as a genre and a consideration of its special theoretical...

... DOI 10.1215/03335372-2817804 David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. ix 1 306 pp. In this book, David Wittenberg aims at providing a history of time travel fiction as a genre and a consideration of its special theoretical...

... DOI 10.1215/03335372-2817804 David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. ix 1 306 pp. In this book, David Wittenberg aims at providing a history of time travel fiction as a genre and a consideration of its special theoretical...

... DOI 10.1215/03335372-2817804 David Wittenberg, Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. ix 1 306 pp. In this book, David Wittenberg aims at providing a history of time travel fiction as a genre and a consideration of its special theoretical...

... strategies for parsing instances of time travel: “explicitly adopting some metanarrative frame” versus “selecting a privileged viewpoint.” [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2025...

... of narrative temporality such as Genette's. Peter Rabinowitz's ( 2005 ) explanation of the paradoxes of time travel can help provide an alternative starting point. He discusses the situation of the Time Traveler in H. G. Wells's Time Machine (1895), who leaves the present (A), arrives in the distant future...

... “ Is Mental Time Travel a Frame-of-Reference Issue? ,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 ( 3 ): 316 – 17 . Brewer William F. Lichtenstein Edward H. 1982 “ Stories Are to Entertain: A Structural-Affect Theory of Stories ,” Journal of Pragmatics 6 : 473 – 86 . Bruhn Mark J...

.... If The Stone Gods is a novel about space travel, VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts shifts the focus from space to time. This is no run-of-the-mill time travel story, though. The conventional paradoxes of time travel narratives have to do with change : how the time traveler's actions in the past could change...

... etched its physical trace in the topography of the landscape; the twists and turns of the past peripeteias are in front of us, but while we can see them, we cannot alter them. 3 But what if we could? In Jack Finney's ( 1970 ) time travel classic, Time and Again , the protagonist participates...

... modes of narrative nonlinearity, 1 has assumed a prominent position. Diegetic time loops and circular patterns of time travel featured centrally in early surprise hits of this new narrative complexity such as Donnie Darko (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Primer (2004), Los...

... of narrative in 2010. Her most recent publication is “Cognitive Challenge in Complex Science Fiction: Knowledge, Reason, and Threat in Narratives of Time Travel and Extraterrestrial Contact” (in Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Literature, Film, and Television , 2022...