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New Testaments
Michael W. Austin
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Description for New Testaments
Hardback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted—as they attract today—sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about the way human beings process narrative information. We crave narrative closure, but we also resist its finality, making such closure both inevitable and inadequate in human narratives. Many cultures incorporate this fundamental ambiguity towards closure in the mythic frameworks that fuel their narrative imaginations. New Testaments: Cognition, Closure and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740 examines both the inevitability and the inadequacy of ... Read more
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted—as they attract today—sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about the way human beings process narrative information. We crave narrative closure, but we also resist its finality, making such closure both inevitable and inadequate in human narratives. Many cultures incorporate this fundamental ambiguity towards closure in the mythic frameworks that fuel their narrative imaginations. New Testaments: Cognition, Closure and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740 examines both the inevitability and the inadequacy of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493641
SKU
V9781611493641
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About Michael W. Austin
Michael Austin is provost, vice president for Academic Affairs, and professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas.
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