ESTNE SIC TEMPUS? THE TIME IN SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE WELLS MACHINE AND THE TUNNELS OF DARK

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Keywords:

Time, Science Fiction, Dark, The Time Machine

Abstract

Time can be chronological or psychological. Prost, for example, transforms seconds in long pages. In many other authors’ writings years, decades, centuries pass by the reader's eyes in just a paragraph. The cinema plays with time editing its scenes and the viewer watch a product whose time and space are dissipated and signified. In science fiction, time has led discussions about the unknown, presenting science the field of great innovations or the creator of great rashness.In The Time Machine, time reveals the future of post-human, something that no longer resembles what we know. On the other hand, in Dark, produced by Netflix, science is portrayed in a gloomy atmosphere and as pessimism concept. Both works discussed below seem to nourish from the incalculable power that time has on society. We aim to analyse time and narrative; science from the historical context of the creation of the works; time travel as a construct used by science fiction; mathematical theory of the fourth dimension; and physical theories regarding temporality.

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Author Biographies

Alisson Preto Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutorando e mestre em letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Lis Yana de Lima Martinez, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutoranda e Mestre em Estudos de Literatura (linha de pesquisa Teoria, Crítica e Comparatismo) do Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Bolsista CNPq.Sua pesquisa se concentra em estudos sobre Intermedialidade, especialmente nas temáticas de Meia-Realidade, Ficção Interativa, Remidiação, Criação e Adaptação literária na transposição de literatura para jogos de videogame e cinema.

Lucia Sá Rebello, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professora titular do instituto de letras da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

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Published

2020-12-01

How to Cite

SOUZA, Alisson Preto; MARTINEZ, Lis Yana de Lima; REBELLO, Lucia Sá.
ESTNE SIC TEMPUS? THE TIME IN SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE WELLS MACHINE AND THE TUNNELS OF DARK
. Afluente: Revista de Letras e Linguística, v. 5, n. 16, p. 23–41, 1 Dec. 2020 Disponível em: https://cajapio.ufma.br/index.php/afluente/article/view/14004. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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v. 5, n. 16, jul./dez. 2020

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Estudos Literários

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