David Wittenberg

David Wittenberg teaches English, comparative literature, and cinema at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Philosophy, Revision, Critique: Rereading Practices in Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Emerson (2001) and Time Travel: The Popular Philosophy of Narrative (2013), and is working on a new book, “Big Culture: Toward an Aesthetics of Magnitude.”


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Travel Across Time and Genre

Nick Falcott, an English aristocrat fighting in the Battle of Salamanca in 1812, is about to be run through by a French dragoon’s sword when he abruptly blinks out of existence and reappears in the year 2003. The orphaned Julia Percy, languishing in castle Dar under the guardianship of her loathsome cousin Eamon, discovers she […]