I am currently reading Charles Williams's 1931 novel, in which there is a very early discussion of the possibility of a "time loop".
In his biography of Charles Williams, Grevel Lindop suggests that this novel contains the first discussion of temporal paradoxes in any fiction, since the subject was first broached by HG Wells in The Time Machine (1895).
The stimulus for Williams's discussion seems to have been the 1927 non-fiction volume An Experiment with Time, by JW Dunne.
But I regard the whole notion of temporal paradox as unreal; an artefact of distinctively modern scientific-abstract modellings of "time", as if it were a separable thing.
Read the whole thing at my Notion Club Papers blog.
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