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New Testaments - Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740 (Hardcover)
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New Testaments - Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740 (Hardcover)
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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.
That they can do so, however, represents something fundamental
about the way that 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 have incorporated this fundamental ambiguity towards
closure in the mythic framework that fuels their narrative
imaginations. New Testaments examines both the inevitability and
the inadequacy of closure in the sequels to four major works of
literature written in England between 1660 and 1740: Paradise Lost,
The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and Pamela. Each of these
works spawned sequels that, while often very different from the
original works, connected themselves to those works work through
rhetorical strategies that can be loosely defined as figural. Such
strategies came directly from the culture's two dominant religious
narratives: the Old and the New Testaments of the Christian
Bible-two vastly dissimilar works that were universally seen as
complementary parts of a unified and coherent narrative.
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