Heptalogy Explained

A heptalogy (; from Greek ἑπτα- hepta-, "seven" and -λογία -logia, "discourse"), is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works.[1] While not in wide usage, it has been used to describe such examples as the Harry Potter series of books,[2] and The Chronicles of Narnia.[3]

Examples

HeptalogyDatesAuthor
The Cycle of Life[4] 1914Edward Maryon
In Search of Lost Time[5] 1913–1927Marcel Proust
The Chronicles of Narnia[6] 1949–1954C. S. Lewis
Le Livre des questions (The Book of Questions)[7] 1963–1973 (1976–1984 in English)Edmond Jabès
Narratives of Empire[8] 1967–2000Gore Vidal
Licht[9] 1977–2003Karlheinz Stockhausen
Harry Potter1997–2007J. K. Rowling
Planned heptalogyDatesAuthor
Luther[10] 1613–1630Martin Rinkart
Eugene Gant[11] 1935–1941Thomas Wolfe
The Ages of Man[12] 1956Thornton Wilder
The Children of Kronos[13] 1987–1991Alexandros Kotzias
Heptalogía de Hieronymus Bosch[14] 1997–2006Rafael Spregelburd
A Song of Ice and Fire[15] 1996–20??George R. R. Martin

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: 77 things about the #7 . . A6 . January 2, 2007 . 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..
    • News: Robert McCrum . The Hallows, and then the goodbyes: Tolkien it isn't, but J K Rowling's latest marks a triumphant literary achievement . . 17 . July 22, 2007 . The completion of this world-shaking heptalogy is something close to a triumph..
    • Web site: Rowling tops revenue list . The Bookseller . January 25, 2008 . 2008-02-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080128170220/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/51988-rowling-tops-revenue-list.html . January 28, 2008 .
  3. Book: Christopher. Joe R.. C. S. Lewis's Problem with 'The Franklin's Tale'. Khoddam . Salwa . Hall . Mark R.. Fisher . Jason. C.S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination and Modern Technology. 2015. Newcastle . Cambridge Scholars Press . 2015 . 128. 9781443882965. Lewis had a secret structure to the Narnian heptalogy.
    • Section 3 . Musical News and Herald . 46 . January–June 1914 . 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... . 610.
    • Edward Maryon . . 95 . 1333 . March 1954 . 152 . ... his magnum opus being 'The Cycle of Life', a heptalogy ....
  5. News: Michael Wright . The Marcel wave . . January 2, 2000 . 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..
    • Book: Alan Farrell . High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans . 227 . 2007 . ...while Lewis confected a heptalogy ... about the fictitious and snow-shrouded land of Narnia....
    • Book: Michael Ward . Michael Ward (scholar) . 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.".
  7. 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.
  8. News: Fred Inglis . News as history: history as fiction . Financial Times Books . 5 . November 4, 2000 . This is the final volume of Vidal's astonishing heptalogy, Narratives of Empire....
    • Juan María Solare . Face to face with Stockhausen . . July 2000 . 20–22 . The heptalogy LICHT (Light) is a cycle of seven operas... . 946542. 2 . 213 . 0040-2982 . 10.1017/s0040298200007828. 143443072 .
    • Ivanka Stoianova . And Dasein becomes music: some glimpses of Light . . 37 . Winter 1999 . 179–212 . Since 1977, the year which marks the beginning of the composition of the heptalogy Licht.... 1 . 10.2307/833631 . Jerome Kohl. Jerome Kohl. 833631.
  10. Encyclopedia: Albert Freybe . Samuel Macauley Jackson . The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge . Rinckart (Rinkart), Martin . 2008-02-09 . 1911 . Funk & Wagnalls Company . 10 . 41 . A third drama, the Indulgentiarius confusus, was written..., forming the third part of the author's intended heptalogy on Luther..
  11. Book: Willard Thorp . American Writing in the Twentieth Century . registration . Harvard University Press . 1960 . 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....
  12. News: Short List . . May 18, 1999 . Thornton Wilder left this heptalogy of one-acts unfinished at his death in 1975.
  13. News: Michael Moschos . Obituary: Alexandros Kotzias . The Independent Gazette . 31 . September 25, 1992 . He completed four in this projected "heptalogy" under the general title "The Children of Kronos".
    • News: James Woodall . F.I.N.D. Schaubühne, Berlin . Financial Times Arts . 8 . February 16, 2004 . Argentine Rafael Spregelburd's Stupidity, the fourth in The Hieronymus Bosch Heptalogy series, is a sprawling farce....
    • Web site: Casa awards start the literary party in Cuba . Cuba Headlines . January 12, 2008 . 2008-02-09.
  15. Web site: New Game of Thrones Trailer; Exclusive Preview on April 3rd . Screen Rant . March 7, 2011 . 2011-08-08.

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