02859nam 2200673Ia 450 991081283580332120230802012929.01-299-31638-71-61149-365-X(CKB)2560000000100675(EBL)1153816(OCoLC)855502816(SSID)ssj0000835822(PQKBManifestationID)12364759(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835822(PQKBWorkID)10997600(PQKB)11608756(MiAaPQ)EBC1153816(Au-PeEL)EBL1153816(CaPaEBR)ebr10675672(CaONFJC)MIL462888(EXLCZ)99256000000010067520110725d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNew testaments[electronic resource] cognition, closure, and the figural logic of the sequel, 1660-1740 /Michael AustinNewark University of Delaware Press ;Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefieldc20121 online resource (181 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61149-364-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorNew 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.<English fictionEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismEnglish fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismClosure (Rhetoric)FictionTechniqueNarration (Rhetoric)Sequels (Literature)Rhetoric in the BibleEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Closure (Rhetoric)FictionTechnique.Narration (Rhetoric)Sequels (Literature)Rhetoric in the Bible.823/.409Austin Michael1966-878953MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812835803321New testaments4081950UNINA