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A '''heptalogy''' (from ] ἑπτα- '']'', "seven" and -λογία ''-logia'', "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works.<ref>{{cite news |title=77 things about the #7 |work=] |page=A6 |date=January 2, 2007 |quote=A series of seven works of art is called a heptalogy. In the case of films, ] and ] (both to be completed), are examples.}}</ref> Whilst not in wide usage, it has been used to describe such examples as the '']'' series of books.<ref name="hp"> |
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*{{cite news |author=Chris Leadbeater |title=Hooray for half-term! |work=] |page=68 |date=October 20, 2007 |quote=This two-man stage show squashes the heptalogy into 60 frenetic minutes. |
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A '''heptalogy''' ({{IPAc-en|h|ɛ|p|'|t|æ|l|ə|dʒ|i}}; from ] {{lang|grc-Grek|ἑπτα-|italic=no}} {{lang|grc-latn|]}}, "seven" and {{lang|grc-Grek|-λογία|italic=no}} {{lang|grc-latn|-logia}}, "discourse") is a compound literary or narrative work that is made up of seven distinct works.<ref>{{cite news |title=77 things about the #7 |work=] |page=A6 |date=January 2, 2007 |quote=A series of seven works of art is called a heptalogy. In the case of films, ] and ] (both to be completed), are examples.}}</ref> While not in wide usage, it has been used to describe such examples as the '']'' series of books,<ref name="hp"> |
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*{{cite news |author=Robert McCrum |title=The Hallows, and then the goodbyes: Tolkien it isn't, but J K Rowling's latest marks a triumphant literary achievement |work=] |page=17 |date=July 22, 2007 |quote=The completion of this world-shaking heptalogy is something close to a triumph.}} |
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*{{cite news |author=Robert McCrum |title=The Hallows, and then the goodbyes: Tolkien it isn't, but J K Rowling's latest marks a triumphant literary achievement |work=] |page=17 |date=July 22, 2007 |quote=The completion of this world-shaking heptalogy is something close to a triumph.}} |
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*{{cite web |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/51988-rowling-tops-revenue-list.html |title=Rowling tops revenue list |work=The Bookseller |date=January 25, 2008 |accessdate=2008-02-09}}</ref> |
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/51988-rowling-tops-revenue-list.html |title=Rowling tops revenue list |work=The Bookseller |date=January 25, 2008 |access-date=2008-02-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128170220/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/51988-rowling-tops-revenue-list.html |archive-date=January 28, 2008 }}</ref> and '']''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Christopher|first1=Joe R.|chapter=C. S. Lewis's Problem with 'The Franklin's Tale'|editor1-last=Khoddam |editor1-first=Salwa |editor2-last=Hall |editor2-first=Mark R.|editor3-last=Fisher |editor3-first=Jason|title=C.S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination and Modern Technology|year=2015|location=Newcastle |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Press |publication-date=2015 |page=128|isbn=9781443882965|quote=Lewis had a secret structure to the Narnian heptalogy}}</ref> |
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*{{cite journal |title=Section 3 |journal=Musical News and Herald |volume=46 |date=January–June 1914 |quote=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''... |page=610}} |
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*{{cite journal |title=Section 3 |journal=Musical News and Herald |volume=46 |date=January–June 1914 |quote=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''... |page=610}} |
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*{{cite journal |author= |title=Edward Maryon |journal=] |volume=95 |issue=1333 |date=March 1954 |page=152 |quote=... his magnum opus being 'The Cycle of Life', a heptalogy ....}}</ref> |
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*{{cite journal |title=Edward Maryon |journal=] |volume=95 |issue=1333 |date=March 1954 |page=152 |quote=... his magnum opus being 'The Cycle of Life', a heptalogy ...}}</ref> |
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| '']''<ref>{{cite news |author=Michael Wright |title=The Marcel wave |work=] |date=January 2, 2000 |quote=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.}}</ref> |
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*{{cite book |author=Alan Farrell |title=High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans |page=227 |year=2007 |quote=...while Lewis confected a heptalogy ... about the fictitious and snow-shrouded land of Narnia....}} |
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*{{cite book |author=Alan Farrell |title=High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans |page=227 |year=2007 |quote=...while Lewis confected a heptalogy ... about the fictitious and snow-shrouded land of Narnia...}} |
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*{{cite book |author=] |title=Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis |page=13 | quote= Charles Wrong ... reports Lewis as adding, "I had to write three volumes, of course, or seven, or nine. Those are the magic numbers."}}</ref> |
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*{{cite book |author=Michael Ward |author-link=Michael Ward (scholar) |title=Planet Narnia. The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis |page=13 | quote= Charles Wrong ... reports Lewis as adding, "I had to write three volumes, of course, or seven, or nine. Those are the magic numbers."}}</ref> |
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| ''Le Livre des questions'' (''The Book of Questions'')<ref>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.</ref> |
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| ''Le Livre des questions'' (''The Book of Questions'')<ref>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.</ref> |
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*{{cite journal |author=Juan María Solare |title=Face to face with Stockhausen |journal=] |date=July 2000 |pages=20–22 |quote=The heptalogy LICHT (Light) is a cycle of seven operas.... |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0040-2982(200007)2%3A213%3C20%3AFTFWS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A |volume=2 |issue=213 |issn=0040-2982 |doi=10.1017/s0040298200007828}} |
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*{{cite journal |author=Juan María Solare |title=Face to face with Stockhausen |journal=] |date=July 2000 |pages=20–22 |quote=The heptalogy ''LICHT'' (Light) is a cycle of seven operas... |jstor=946542|volume=2 |issue=213 |issn=0040-2982 |doi=10.1017/s0040298200007828|s2cid=143443072 }} |
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*{{cite journal |first=Ivanka |last=Stoianova |title=And Dasein becomes music: some glimpses of Light |journal=] |volume=37 |date=Winter 1999 |pages=179–212 |quote=Since 1977, the year which marks the beginning of the composition of the heptalogy Licht.... |issue=1 |doi=10.2307/833631 |last2=Kohl |first2=Jerome |jstor=833631}}</ref> |
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*{{cite journal |author=Ivanka Stoianova |title=And Dasein becomes music: some glimpses of Light |journal=] |volume=37 |date=Winter 1999 |pages=179–212 |quote=Since 1977, the year which marks the beginning of the composition of the heptalogy ''Licht''...|issue=1 |doi=10.2307/833631 |author2=Jerome Kohl|author2-link=Jerome Kohl|jstor=833631}}</ref> |
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