Editing An Experiment with Time (section)

==Literary influence==
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The popularity of ''An Experiment with Time'' was reflected in the many authors who subsequently referenced him and his ideas in literary works of fiction. He "undoubtedly helped to form something of the imaginative climate of those [interwar] years".<ref name="stewart">Stewart (2008)</ref><ref>Anon; "Obituary: Mr. J. W. Dunne, Philosopher and Airman", ''The Times'', August 27, 1949, Page 7.</ref> One of the first and most significant writers was [[J. B. Priestley]], who used Dunne's ideas in three of his "[[J. B. Priestley's Time Plays|Time plays]]": ''[[Time and the Conways]]'', ''[[Dangerous Corner]]'', and ''[[An Inspector Calls]]''.<ref name="stewart" />

Dunne's theory strongly influenced the unfinished novels ''[[The Notion Club Papers]]'' by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] and ''[[The Dark Tower (Lewis novel)|The Dark Tower]]'' by [[C. S. Lewis]]. Tolkien and Lewis were both members of the [[Inklings]] literary circle. Tolkien used Dunne's ideas about parallel time dimensions in developing the [[Time in The Lord of the Rings|differing natures of time in ''The Lord of the Rings'']] between "[[Lothlórien|Lórien]] time" and time in the rest of [[Middle-earth]].<ref name="flieger">Flieger (2001)</ref> Lewis used the imagery of serialism in the afterlife he depicted at the end of ''[[The Last Battle]]'', the closing tale in the [[Chronicles of Narnia]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Inchbald |first=Guy |title=The Last Serialist: C.S. Lewis and J.W. Dunne |journal=Mythlore |volume=37 |issue=2, Spring/Summer 2019 |year=2019 |pages=75–88 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2096&context=mythlore}}</ref>

Other important contemporary writers who used his ideas, whether as a narrative or literary device, included [[John Buchan]] (''[[The Gap in the Curtain]]''), [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]] (''[[Random Harvest]]''), his old friend [[H. G. Wells]] (''The Queer Story of Brownlow’s Newspaper'' and ''[[The Shape of Things to Come]]''), [[Graham Greene]] (''The Bear Fell Free'') and [[Rumer Godden]] (''A Fugue in Time'').<ref name="stewart" /><ref>Gilvary, Dermot; ''Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene: Journeys with Saints and Sinners'', Continuum, 2011, p.101.</ref><ref>Stewart, Victoria; "An Experiment with Narrative?  Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time", in (ed. Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis B. Lassner) ''Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller'', Routledge, 2010, pp. 81-93.</ref> Literary figures less overtly influenced included [[T.S. Eliot]], [[James Joyce]] and [[Flann O'Brien]].<ref name="jones" />

Following Dunne's death in 1949, the popularity of his themes continued. In [[Philip Jose Farmer]]'s 1952 science fiction novella ''[[The Lovers (Farmer novella and novel)|The Lovers]]'' (expanded into a novel in 1961 & '79) the religion of the Haijac Union derives from Isaac Sigman, a messianic figure of a thousand years prior to the events of the story. Sigmanism is the belief system of the "Sturch" (state-church) and it is clear that it is an elaboration, or variant, of Judaism. It incorporates Dunne's "Serialism" with an extremely oppressive and coersive theocracy. [[Philippa Pearce]]'s 1958 childhood fantasy ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]'' makes use of Dunne's theory of time and won the British literary [[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]].<ref>[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/pearce_philippa "Pearce, Philippa"], ''Science Fiction Encyclopedia'' (accessed 15 January 2016)</ref> The writer [[Vladimir Nabokov]] undertook his own dream experiment in 1964, following Dunne's instructions, and it strongly influenced his subsequent novels, especially ''[[Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle]]''.<ref>[[Vladimir Nabokov|Nabokov, Vladimir]] (ed. Gennady Barabtarlo); ''Insomniac Dreams: Experiments with Time'', Princeton University Press, 2018 (sic).</ref><ref>Lanchester, John; [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n09/john-lanchester/nabokovs-dreams "Nabokov’s Dreams"], ''[[London Review of Books]]'', Vol. 40, Nr. 9, 10 May 2018, p. 18.</ref>