| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Pierre Boulle's Planet of the Apes (1963) From Novel to Screenplay, Bernard Montoneri, Independent Researcher, Taiwan; Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 2. Travelling through Time and Space in the Works of Russian Speaking Science Fiction Writers, Iryna B. Morozova, Odesa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine -- Chapter 3. El anacronópete (1884, 1887), the First Journey in a Time Machine in Hispanic literature, Fernando Darío González Grueso, Tamkang University, Taipei Rachid Lamarti, Tamkang University, Taipei -- Chapter 4. The Ice People (1968), a story of humankind's auto-destruction, Murielle El Hajj, Lusail University, Qatar -- Chapter 5. 'I'm just a traveller': Doctor Who and the Wibbly Wobbly Histories of Time and Space, Alyson Miller and Eleanore Gardner, Deakin University, Australia -- Chapter 6. Time Travel in M. Bugakov's Master and Margarita, Anna Toom, Touro College & University System, New York, USA -- Chapter 7. Chronotopes, Afrotropes, and Restorative Aesthetics in Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins's Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self, Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany -- Chapter 8. Femi Osofisan's One Legend, Many Seasons, Oyewumi Olatoye, Agunbiade & Enongene Mirabeau, Sone, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa -- Chapter 9. Time Travel in Japan and The Girl who Leapt through Time, Akiyoshi Suzuki, Nagasaki University, Japan -- Chapter 10. The Concept of Time Travel in Vedic Literature- A Perspective, Beena Giridharan, Curtin University, Malaysia |
| Summary |
Time travel is an important theme in literature and other arts. This excellent collection introduces readers to some of the most innovative and influential works and offers insightful discussions of works from different literary traditions and in different forms, both famous classics and new discoveries. For anyone interested in this theme and its various manifestations, reading this collection will be remarkably rewarding. Professor Zhang Longxi, Hunan Normal University, China The book consists of fascinating chapters that explore in depth various themes related to time travel. Each chapter focuses on a different literary work or medium and explores how time travel has influenced different cultures, literature, and philosophies. It is a highly engaging resource for exploring this interesting topic from the perspectives of different literary works and cultures. Professor Yoriko Ishida, National Institute of Technology, Oshima College, Japan. In this wonderful collection, time travel is read under the temporal gaze of capitalism and imperialism, history and modernity, and across the undulating sheets of time. It is an essential edition to the field of time travel studies and a form of revelatory chrononautics. One enters the book and moves across the great and small histories of time and space. Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia. Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema discusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter is written by professors and scholars from various countries, including the US, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and Australia. The book addresses themes of racism, sexism, feminism, and social injustice as well as dystopian futures. This will appeal to students and scholars studying science fiction, dystopian literature, world literature, and world cinema |
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Time travel in literature.
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Time travel in motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Montoneri, Bernard, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031523151 |
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3031523156 |
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