From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
This article may not meet the notability guideline for neologisms. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since February 2008. |
A heptalogy is a set of seven works of art[1] that are connected by a common storyline. One famous example is the Harry Potter series of books.[2][3][4] The term is sometimes found in the nonce form "septology",[5] or in the form "septet".[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "77 things about the #7", The Canberra Times, 2007-01-02, p. A6. "A series of seven works of art is called a heptalogy. In the case of films, Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia (both to be completed), are examples."
- ^ Chris Leadbeater. "Hooray for half-term!", Daily Mail, 2007-10-20, p. 68. "This two-man stage show [Potted Potter] squashes the heptalogy into 60 frenetic minutes."
- ^ Robert McCrum. "The Hallows, and then the goodbyes: Tolkien it isn't, but J K Rowling's latest marks a triumphant literary achievement", The Observer, 2007-07-22, p. 17. "The completion of this world-shaking heptalogy is something close to a triumph."
- ^ Rowling tops revenue list. The Bookseller (2008-01-25). Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
- ^ e.g. interview with Scott Lynch in SFX magazine, June 18, 2007, about his planned seven-part series.
- ^ Michael Ward, Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780195313871. passim.
- ^ "Section 3" (Jan-Jun 1914). Musical News and Herald 46: 610. “So he has written his heptalogy, the titles of the dramas being "Lucifer," "Cain," "Magdalen," "Krishna," "Christos," "Psyche," and "Nirvana." The title of the whole is "The Cycle of Life," ....”
- ^ "Edward Maryon" (March 1954). The Musical Times 95: 152. “... his magnum opus being 'The Cycle of Life', a heptalogy ....”
- ^ Michael Wright. "The Marcel wave", The Times, 2000-01-02. "The pressure to read Proust is felt in different ways. Sir Richard Eyre ... confesses that he was shamed into reading the mighty heptalogy by Alan Bennett."
- ^ Ellik, Ron and Evans, Bill (Illustrations by Bjo Trimble) The Universes of E.E. Smith Chicago:1966 Advent Publishers Page 14
- ^ Alan Farrell (2007). High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, 227. “...while Lewis confected a heptalogy ... about the fictitious and snow-shrouded land of Narnia....”
- ^ Michael Ward. Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, 13. “Charles Wrong ... reports Lewis as adding, "I had to write three volumes, of course, or seven, or nine. Those are the magic numbers."”
- ^ Walter Stauss, review of Warren F. Motte jr., Questioning Edmond Jabès (1990), in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 46:1/2 (1992), p. 99.
- ^ Fred Inglis. "News as history: history as fiction", Financial Times Books, 2000-11-04, p. 5. "This is the final volume of Vidal's astonishing heptalogy, Narratives of Empire...."
- ^ Juan María Solare (July 2000). "Face to face with Stockhausen". Tempo: 20–22. “The heptalogy LICHT (Light) is a cycle of seven operas....”
- ^ Ivanka Stoianova (Winter 1999). "And Dasein becomes music: some glimpses of Light". Perspectives of New Music 37 (1): 179–212. doi:10.2307/833631. “Since 1977, the year which marks the beginning of the composition of the heptalogy Licht....”
- ^ School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Newsletter 11, December 2003, p. 9. ISSN 1175-5555. [1].
- ^ Albert Freybe (1911). "Rinckart (Rinkart), Martin". The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge 10. Ed. Samuel Macauley Jackson. Funk & Wagnalls Company. 41. Retrieved on 2008-02-09. “A third drama, the Indulgentiarius confusus, was written..., forming the third part of the author's intended heptalogy on Luther.”
- ^ Willard Thorp (1960). American Writing in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press, 174. “Here was stuff, not for a naturalistic trilogy but for a heptalogy! In the four novels which stand complete and in the fragment of a fifth (The Hills Beyond, 1941), Wolfe took one hero, Eugene Gant....”
- ^ "Short List", The Village Voice, 1999-05-18. "Thornton Wilder left this heptalogy of one-acts unfinished at his death in 1975"
- ^ Michael Moschos. "Obituary: Alexandros Kotzias", The Independent Gazette, 1992-09-25, p. 31. "He completed four in this projected "heptalogy" under the general title "The Children of Kronos""
- ^ James Woodall. "F.I.N.D. Schaubuhne, Berlin", Financial Times Arts, 2004-02-16, p. 8. "Argentine Rafael Spregelburd's Stupidity, the fourth in the The Hieronymus Bosch Heptalogy series, is a sprawling farce...."
- ^ Casa awards start the literary party in Cuba. Cuba Headlines (2008-01-12). Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
- ^ Books by Scott Lynch, http://www.scottlynch.us/books.html Currently two of the planned seven books in the Gentleman Bastard Sequence have been published. Lies of Locke Lamora was published in 2006 and Red Seas Under Red Skies in 2007.
[edit] See also
