This essay introduces the category of involuntary time loop (ITL) stories and investigates their narrative specificities. These are stories in which the protagonist repeatedly lives through a certain period of time while all or most of the other characters do not experience the repetition. A...
Time-travel stories repeatedly tell us this. “The technology’s all in the folders in front of you,” the president’s chief of staff tells a table of senators in Timecop.“You won’t understand it any better than I can.” In terms of narrative efficiency, this is an understandable app...
Time travel: memories, identity and memoir – a personal essay Without memoir identity fades and becomes ghostlike. Based on the work of theorists such as Eakin and Schacter, this creative work examines time travel, ghosts and the effects of personal history on identity, memory and memoir.Irene...
Time travel with Gilles Deleuze 来自 掌桥科研 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者: JM Winslade 摘要: My focus here will be on working in therapy with an elastic concept of time built on Deleuze's readings of time as a synthesis of the past, present and future. This interest has particular value...
In this brief essay I feature certain forms of Dickensian reception associated with objects, houses, and places as well as performances. I wish to bring out the dimensions of time travel in ‘homes and haunts’ literature and literary tourism, waiving for the moment the distinctions amongst the...
It gave birth to the theme of time travel which had rarely been explored in the science fiction world before, this novel was published. The reason this essay is that I will be providing a close reading of two extracts from the novel, in which I will explore the literacy features , ...
Free Essay: A Wrinkle in Time is a novel by Madeleine L’engle that is about a girl named Meg. Meg and her brother Charles Wallace are misfits, Charles...
In this charming feature animation, time travel enables a teenage girl to learn important lessons about life, and about herself. By presenting a narrative that rejects individualism in favour of group harmony, writes Susan Bye, Mamoru Hosoda's film also gives Western viewers important insights into...
In the mid twentieth century, the dominant public narrative was that the standard of living – which widened access to consumption, healthcare and education – was rising. Everyone in the rich countries was happy, and the poor countries were on their way to development. The public secret was ...
This exploration of the prehuman and divine in Lispector’s narrative echoes themes in Spinoza’s Ethics, particularly as interpreted by Clare Carlisle. This is the conflation of God and Nature that Carlisle addresses in Spinoza’s Religion: When Spinoza identifies Nature with God, however, this ...