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Informationen zum Autor Michael Austin is provost, vice president for Academic Affairs, and professor of English at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Narrative Closure as a Cognitive Problem Chapter 2: God's Sequel Chapter 3: "His Great Duel, Not of Arms": Davidic Typologyand Rhetorical Combat in Paradise Regained Chapter 4: The Figural Logic of the Sequel and the Unity of The Pilgrim's Progress Chapter 5: "Jesting with the Truth": Figura, Trace, and theBoundaries of Fiction in Robinson Crusoe and its Sequels Chapter 6: Everybody's Story: Pamela as Type Conclusion End Notes Works Cited
