Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Train as Embodied Space-Time, with Case Studies of The Lady Vanishes , The Narrow Margin , and Night Train

Chapter 2 Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future: Sanshirō , My Most Secret Council , Night Train to Lisbon , and Zone

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

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

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Stations as an Extension of the Train Space-Time in the Romantic Narrative “North Station”