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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes, The Narrow Margin, and Night Train
1 The Train and the Railroad in Modernity Studies
Space-Time in Narrative Studies Before and After the "Spatial Turn"
The "Narrative Turn" in Space-Oriented Social Sciences
2 The Train in the Genre of Mystery
"The Lady Vanishes" (1938)
"The Narrow Margin" (1952)
"Night Train" (Pociąg, 1959)
3 The Intent of This Project
4 The Structure of This Volume
Chapter 2: Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshirō, My Most Secret Council, Night Train to Lisbon, and Zone
1 Rushing to the Station to Catch a Train
2 Timetable's Tightening and Loosening Claws
3 Seat Direction/Location
4 Interaction with Other Passengers
5 Something to Read
6 Interaction with the Railroad Staff
7 Sleeping in the Carriage
8 Station as Intersection of Possible Alternatives
9 Different Trains
Chapter 3: Juncture 1: Wendy and Lucy
Chapter 4: Best Friends for a While: Fugitives on the Train in "Night of the Milky Way Railway," Night Passage, and The Naked Eye
1 No Place to Belong to: Fugitives Ride Trains
2 Death by Rail or a Second Life by Rail
3 Rushing to the Train Again, and Its Variations
4 Sudden Beginning and End
5 Different Trains, Again
6 All Things That Flow
7 Alternative Lives, Adjacent Spaces
Chapter 5: Juncture 2: Clouds of Sils Maria
Chapter 6: It's Not "I," It's "You": A Second-Person Protagonist on the Train in La Modification, Blue Journey, and Suspects on the Night Train
1 Structure of the Narrative
2 Deixis
3 Present Tense and Second-Person Narrative
4 Immanent Time / Time for Bodies to Experience
5 Experienced Space / Embodied Space / Spatial Practices
6 Space to Be Seen: Mediated Space: Mirror and Window
7 Silence and Speech and Sound: Communal Space
8 Book as a Thing: Book (Not) to Be Read
Book to Be Written
9 Biological Time
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Stations as an Extension of the Train Space-Time in the Romantic Narrative "North Station"
1 Stations in Earlier Chapters
2 "North Station"
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes, The Narrow Margin, and Night Train
1 The Train and the Railroad in Modernity Studies
Space-Time in Narrative Studies Before and After the "Spatial Turn"
The "Narrative Turn" in Space-Oriented Social Sciences
2 The Train in the Genre of Mystery
"The Lady Vanishes" (1938)
"The Narrow Margin" (1952)
"Night Train" (Pociąg, 1959)
3 The Intent of This Project
4 The Structure of This Volume
Chapter 2: Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshirō, My Most Secret Council, Night Train to Lisbon, and Zone
1 Rushing to the Station to Catch a Train
2 Timetable's Tightening and Loosening Claws
3 Seat Direction/Location
4 Interaction with Other Passengers
5 Something to Read
6 Interaction with the Railroad Staff
7 Sleeping in the Carriage
8 Station as Intersection of Possible Alternatives
9 Different Trains
Chapter 3: Juncture 1: Wendy and Lucy
Chapter 4: Best Friends for a While: Fugitives on the Train in "Night of the Milky Way Railway," Night Passage, and The Naked Eye
1 No Place to Belong to: Fugitives Ride Trains
2 Death by Rail or a Second Life by Rail
3 Rushing to the Train Again, and Its Variations
4 Sudden Beginning and End
5 Different Trains, Again
6 All Things That Flow
7 Alternative Lives, Adjacent Spaces
Chapter 5: Juncture 2: Clouds of Sils Maria
Chapter 6: It's Not "I," It's "You": A Second-Person Protagonist on the Train in La Modification, Blue Journey, and Suspects on the Night Train
1 Structure of the Narrative
2 Deixis
3 Present Tense and Second-Person Narrative
4 Immanent Time / Time for Bodies to Experience
5 Experienced Space / Embodied Space / Spatial Practices
6 Space to Be Seen: Mediated Space: Mirror and Window
7 Silence and Speech and Sound: Communal Space
8 Book as a Thing: Book (Not) to Be Read
Book to Be Written
9 Biological Time
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Stations as an Extension of the Train Space-Time in the Romantic Narrative "North Station"
1 Stations in Earlier Chapters
2 "North Station"
References
Index