New Testaments: Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740

by Michael Austin

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611493641
• ISBN13: 9781611493641
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"