Looking for Lost

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.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionRANDY LAIST      PART ONE: LOST IN TIME“We Have to Go Back”: Temporal and Spatial Narrative StrategiesERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS      Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of TimeMICHAEL RENNETT      “Enslaved by Time and Space”: Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global InterconnectednessARIS MOUSOUTZANIS      New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The TempestRYAN HOWE       PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHYLost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing PhilosophyJASON M. PECK      Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and FoucaultGIANCARLO LOMBARDI      “So This Is All in My Mind?” Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary CrusoeMATTHEW PANGBORN      Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of “Non-Western” ImageryRENEE MCGARRY      PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMENThe Lost Boys and Masculinity FoundDAVID MAGILL      “It Always Ends the Same”: Paternal FailuresHOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK      Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and PotentialDEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN      PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYLost in Capitalism: or, “Down Here Possession’s Nine-Tenths”ELIZABETH LUNDBERG      “Strangers in a Strange Land”: Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human ChoiceCARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS      Securitizing the Island: The Other Others’ Defense of Environmental ManagementJ. L. SCHATZ      We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11JESSE KAVADLO      About the Contributors      Index