Table of Contents

Introduction
RANDY LAIST     

PART ONE: LOST IN TIME
"We Have to Go Back": Temporal and Spatial Narrative Strategies
ERIKA JOHNSON-LEWIS     
Narrative Philosophy in the Series: Fate, Determinism, and the Manipulation of Time
MICHAEL RENNETT     
"Enslaved by Time and Space": Determinism, Traumatic Temporality, and Global Interconnectedness
ARIS MOUSOUTZANIS     
New Space, New Time, and Newly Told Tales: Lost and The Tempest
RYAN HOWE      

PART TWO: LOST PHILOSOPHY
Lost and Becoming: Reconceptualizing Philosophy
JASON M. PECK     
Lost in Theory: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lost but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault
GIANCARLO LOMBARDI     
"So This Is All in My Mind?" Hugo Crash-Tests the Contemporary Crusoe
MATTHEW PANGBORN     
Primitivizing the Island: The Eclectic Collection of "Non-Western" Imagery
RENEE MCGARRY     

PART THREE: LOST MEN AND LOST WOMEN
The Lost Boys and Masculinity Found
DAVID MAGILL     
"It Always Ends the Same": Paternal Failures
HOLLY HASSEL AND NANCY L. CHICK     
Lost Children: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Potential
DEBORAH DAVIDSON AND WAYNE JEBIAN     

PART FOUR: LOST IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Lost in Capitalism: or, "Down Here Possession's Nine-Tenths"
ELIZABETH LUNDBERG     
"Strangers in a Strange Land": Evading Environmental Apocalypse Through Human Choice
CARLOS A. TARIN AND STACEY K. SOWARDS     
Securitizing the Island: The Other Others' Defense of Environmental Management
J. L. SCHATZ     
We Have to Go Back: Lost After 9/11
JESSE KAVADLO     

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