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Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy Of Narrative

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Book Title: Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative

Item Length: 9in

Item Height: 0.9in

Item Width: 6in

Author: David Wittenberg

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Film / General, Media Studies, General, Semiotics & Theory

Publisher: Fordham University Press

Publication Year: 2012

Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Performing Arts, Philosophy

Item Weight: 18.3 Oz

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

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