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

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Austin, Michael, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : Lanham, Md. : University of Delaware Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
Temas:
Bible > Language, style.
Bible
1500-1799
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.
Roman anglais > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Conclusion (Littérature)
Narration.
Séries (Littérature)
Rhétorique dans la Bible.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Language and languages > Style
English fiction
English fiction > Early modern
Fiction > Technique
Rhetoric in the Bible
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Narrative closure as a cognitive problem
  • God's sequel
  • His great duel, not of arms: Davidic typology
  • And rhetorical combat in Paradise regained
  • The figural logic of the sequel and the unity of The pilgrim's progress
  • "Jesting with the truth": figura, trace, and the boundaries of fiction in Robinson Crusoe and its sequels
  • Everybody's story: Pamela as type
  • Conclusion.

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