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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792189303321

Autore

Austin Michael <1966->

Titolo

New testaments [[electronic resource] ] : cognition, closure, and the figural logic of the sequel, 1660-1740 / / Michael Austin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark, : University of Delaware Press

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012

ISBN

1-299-31638-7

1-61149-365-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Disciplina

823/.409

Soggetti

English fiction - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English fiction - 18th century - History and criticism

Closure (Rhetoric)

Fiction - Technique

Narration (Rhetoric)

Sequels (Literature)

Rhetoric in the Bible

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; End Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

New Testaments examines sequelization in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from two perspectives: 1) the cognitive perspective, which explores the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of the contradictory desires to produce, and to resist, narrative closure; and 2) the biblical perspective, which explains that the connections between sequels and their original works were often constructed with the same tools that the culture used to forge the Old and New Testaments into a single, coherent narrative.<