Literary Lost : viewing television through the lens of literature /
by Sarah Clarke Stuart.
- New York : Continuum, 2011.
- vi, 167 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The books of Lost -- "Are you there, God?" : faith, sacrifice and redemption -- Who has the power over the clay? purpose, fate and free will -- Stuck and "unstuck" in time : a tradition of time travel -- "Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath" : Lost parents -- "We're all mad here" : dreams, illusions and the nature of reality -- "Maybe there is a beast-- maybe it's only us" : group dynamics and the communities of Lost -- A conclusion : the purpose of "stories that aren't even true".