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...
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...
Picture books to travel through space and time This essay assumes the concept of the labyrinth in a broad sense, as a picture, as a symbol and as a geometric structure, but also as a narrative structure and as a metaphor: the labyrinth of History, the labyrinths of the mind, the laby....
1)mental time travel心理时间之旅 1., mental time travel into the past); By contrast, mental construction of potential future episodes has only very recently begun to draw attention, which is referred to episodic future thinking (i.心理时间之旅是指人类在心理上把自我投射到过去以重新经历过去事件...
I’ve even changed since I first started writing this essay, in the summer of 2023. I’m recovering from recent top surgery, once a topic for a memoir and now routine, covered by insurance. I am rereading Orlando—arguably the first modern transition narrative—during my recovery. Like ...
(1907). This last text, together with its reading by Freud, suggests that time-travel is simply a journey into one’s own past, a process of anamnesis in which the “woman of the past” is an object of love individuated in one’s own infancy. In his essay on The Uncanny (1919),...
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...
(large hadron collider), the black hole, John Titor, and the butterfly effect. Watching the series is like a lesson on the science of time travel itself, and objectively and for the most part of it, the pseudo-science of the series interweaves with the plot development in a manner ...
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 ...
Given all these time travel-focused reveals, it was no surprise to see Neviril immediately ask if Amuria could still be alive. Having just recently mended her relationship with Aaeru, I’m really hoping Neviril doesn’t backslide into false hope and depression – her grieving process has been...