New testaments : cognition, closure, and the figural logic of the sequel, 1660-1740 / Michael Austin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Austin, Michael, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

Closure (Rhetoric).

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Sequels (Literature).

Rhetoric in the Bible.

Bible--Language, style.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.<

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61149-802-3

1-299-31638-7

1-61149-365-X

OCLC:

855502816