Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema

Zusammenfassung: 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. Bernard Montoneri was an Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Cultures at the National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan until January 2020. He is now an independent researcher. He has around 60 publications and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the IAFOR Journal of Education until 2017. He is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Literature and Librarianship since 2019