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Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series


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Lost has received widespread acclaim as one of the most innovative, intelligent, and influential dramatic series in television history. Central to Lost's success has been its capacity to evoke audience interpretations of its mysteries, undiminished even with the series' definitive conclusion.

This collection of fifteen essays by critics, academics, and philosophers examines the complete series from a diverse but interconnected array of perspectives. Complementary and occasionally conflicting interpretations of the show's major themes are presented, including the role of time, fate and determinism, masculinity, parenthood, and the threat of environmental apocalypse.



Table of Contents:
Table of Contents

Introduction
RANDY LAIST     

PART ONE: LOST IN TIME
“We Have to Go Back”: Temporal and Spatial Narrative Strategies
ERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS     
Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of Time
MICHAEL RENNETT     
“Enslaved by Time and Space”: Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global Interconnectedness
ARIS MOUSOUTZANIS     
New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The Tempest
RYAN HOWE      

PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHY
Lost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing Philosophy
JASON M. PECK     
Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault
GIANCARLO LOMBARDI     
“So This Is All in My Mind?” Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary Crusoe
MATTHEW PANGBORN     
Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of “Non-Western” Imagery
RENEE MCGARRY     

PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMEN
The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found
DAVID MAGILL     
“It Always Ends the Same”: Paternal Failures
HOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK     
Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Potential
DEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN     

PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Lost in Capitalism: or, “Down Here Possession’s Nine-Tenths”
ELIZABETH LUNDBERG     
“Strangers in a Strange Land”: Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human Choice
CARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS     
Securitizing the Island: The Other Others’ Defense of Environmental Management
J. L. SCHATZ     
We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11
JESSE KAVADLO     

About the Contributors     
Index     


About the Author :
Randy Laist is a professor of English at Goodwin University and the University of Bridgeport. He has authored and edited several books on literature, popular culture, and pedagogy. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780786447169
  • Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 440 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0786447168
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series
  • Width: 152 mm


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