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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> 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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⚫ 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">
*{{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.}} *{{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.}}
*{{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 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128170220/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/51988-rowling-tops-revenue-list.html |archivedate=January 28, 2008 |df= }}</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|location=Newcastle |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Press |publication-date=2015 |page=128|isbn=9781443882965|quote=Lewis had a secret structure to the Narnian heptalogy}}</ref> *{{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>


==Examples== ==Examples==
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| ''The Cycle of Life''<ref> | ''The Cycle of Life''<ref>
*{{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}} *{{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}}
*{{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> *{{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>
| 1914 | 1914
| Edward Maryon | Edward Maryon
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| '']''<ref> | '']''<ref>
*{{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....}} *{{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...}}
*{{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> *{{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>
| 1949–1954 | 1949–1954
| ] | ]
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| 1951–1983
| ]
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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> | ''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>
| 1963–1973 (1976–1984 in English) | 1963–1973 (1976–1984 in English)
| ] | ]
|- |-
| '']''<ref>{{cite news |author=Fred Inglis |title=News as history: history as fiction |work=] Books |page=5 |date=November 4, 2000 |quote=This is the final volume of Vidal's astonishing heptalogy, Narratives of Empire....}}</ref> | '']''<ref>{{cite news |author=Fred Inglis |title=News as history: history as fiction |work=] Books |page=5 |date=November 4, 2000 |quote=This is the final volume of Vidal's astonishing heptalogy, Narratives of Empire...}}</ref>
| 1967–2000 | 1967–2000
| ] | ]
|- |-
| '']''<ref> | '']''<ref>
*{{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}} *{{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 }}
*{{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 |jstor=833631}}</ref> *{{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>
| 1977–2003 | 1977–2003
| ] | ]

|-
| '']''<ref>
*{{cite web|url=https://www.giantbomb.com/death-gate/3030-20182/ |title=Death Gate |work=Giant Bomb |accessdate=2019-04-19 |df= |quote=In this case, the literary work is the Death Gate Cycle heptalogy written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss....}}
*{{cite journal |author=Will Slocombe |title=Margaret Weis: A Literary-Biography |journal=] – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research |date=2016 |volume=3 |issue=3 |page=51 |url=http://journal.finfar.org/articles/margaret-weis-a-literary-biography/ |accessdate=19 April 2019 |publisher=Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research |language=English |issn=2342-2009 |quote=In 1990-1994, Weis and Hickman again shifted terrain, working on the ambitious seven-novel Death Gate Cycle...the narrative ran throughout all seven volumes.}}</ref>
| 1990–1994
| ] & ]
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| '']''<ref>''School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Newsletter'' 11, December 2003, p. 9. ISSN 1175-5555. .</ref>
| 1993–1999
| ]
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| 1982–2004
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| '']''<ref name="hp" /> | '']''<ref name="hp" />
| 1997–2007 | 1997–2007
| ] | ]
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| '']''{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
| 1977–2006
|]
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|The Clifton Chronicles{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}
|2011–2016
|]
|} |}


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| 1984 - 1994
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| ''Star Wars Movie Franchise''
| 1977 - 2015
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| '''Author''' | '''Author'''
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| ''Luther''<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Albert Freybe |editor=Samuel Macauley Jackson |encyclopedia=The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge |title=Rinckart (Rinkart), Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7el4esMpCT4C&pg=PA41 |accessdate=2008-02-09 |year=1911 |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company |volume=10 |pages=41 |quote=A third drama, the ''Indulgentiarius confusus'', was written..., forming the third part of the author's intended heptalogy on Luther.}}</ref> | ''Luther''<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=Albert Freybe |editor=Samuel Macauley Jackson |encyclopedia=The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge |title=Rinckart (Rinkart), Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7el4esMpCT4C&pg=PA41 |access-date=2008-02-09 |year=1911 |publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company |volume=10 |pages=41 |quote=A third drama, the ''Indulgentiarius confusus'', was written..., forming the third part of the author's intended heptalogy on Luther.}}</ref>
| 1613–1630 | 1613–1630
| ] | ]
|- |-
| '']''<ref>{{cite book |author=Willard Thorp |title=American Writing in the Twentieth Century |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1960 |page=174 |quote=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....}}</ref> | '']''<ref>{{cite book |author=Willard Thorp |title=American Writing in the Twentieth Century |url=https://archive.org/details/americanwritingi00thor |url-access=registration |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1960 |page= |quote=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...}}</ref>
| 1935–1941 | 1935–1941
| ] | ]
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| 1956 | 1956
| ] | ]
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| ''The Children of Kronos''<ref>{{cite news |author=Michael Moschos |title=Obituary: Alexandros Kotzias |work=] Gazette |page=31 |date=September 25, 1992 |quote=He completed four in this projected "heptalogy" under the general title "The Children of Kronos"}}</ref> | ''The Children of Kronos''<ref>{{cite news |author=Michael Moschos |title=Obituary: Alexandros Kotzias |work=] Gazette |page=31 |date=September 25, 1992 |quote=He completed four in this projected "heptalogy" under the general title "The Children of Kronos"}}</ref>
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| ''Heptalogía de Hieronymus Bosch''<ref> | ''Heptalogía de Hieronymus Bosch''<ref>
*{{cite news |author=James Woodall |title=F.I.N.D. Schaubuhne, Berlin |work=] Arts |page=8 |date=February 16, 2004 |quote=Argentine Rafael Spregelburd's Stupidity, the fourth in The Hieronymus Bosch Heptalogy series, is a sprawling farce....}} *{{cite news |author=James Woodall |title=F.I.N.D. Schaubühne, Berlin |work=] Arts |page=8 |date=February 16, 2004 |quote=Argentine Rafael Spregelburd's Stupidity, the fourth in The Hieronymus Bosch Heptalogy series, is a sprawling farce...}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2008/01/12/8349/casa_awards_start_the_literary_party_in_cuba.html |title=Casa awards start the literary party in Cuba |work=Cuba Headlines |date=January 12, 2008 |accessdate=2008-02-09}}</ref> *{{cite web |url=http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2008/01/12/8349/casa_awards_start_the_literary_party_in_cuba.html |title=Casa awards start the literary party in Cuba |work=Cuba Headlines |date=January 12, 2008 |access-date=2008-02-09}}</ref>
| 1997–2006
| 1997-2006
| ] | ]
|- |-
| '']''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://screenrant.com/game-thrones-trailer-preview-hbo-benk-104508/ |title=New ‘Game of Thrones’ Trailer; Exclusive Preview on April 3rd |work=Screen Rant |date=March 7, 2011 |accessdate=2011-08-08}} |</ref> | '']''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://screenrant.com/game-thrones-trailer-preview-hbo-benk-104508/ |title=New ''Game of Thrones'' Trailer; Exclusive Preview on April 3rd |work=Screen Rant |date=March 7, 2011 |access-date=2011-08-08}} |</ref>
| 1996–20?? | 1996–20??
| ] | ]
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| 1983–20??
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| ''The Gentleman Bastard Sequence''<ref> 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.</ref>
| 2006–2007
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Collection of the Harry Potter book series, an example of a heptalogy

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

Examples

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

See also

References

  1. "77 things about the #7". The Canberra Times. January 2, 2007. 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.
  2. ^
    • Robert McCrum (July 22, 2007). "The Hallows, and then the goodbyes: Tolkien it isn't, but J K Rowling's latest marks a triumphant literary achievement". The Observer. p. 17. The completion of this world-shaking heptalogy is something close to a triumph.
    • "Rowling tops revenue list". The Bookseller. January 25, 2008. Archived from the original on January 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  3. Christopher, Joe R. (2015). "C. S. Lewis's Problem with 'The Franklin's Tale'". In Khoddam, Salwa; Hall, Mark R.; Fisher, Jason (eds.). C.S. Lewis and the Inklings: Reflections on Faith, Imagination and Modern Technology. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. p. 128. ISBN 9781443882965. Lewis had a secret structure to the Narnian heptalogy
    • "Section 3". Musical News and Herald. 46: 610. 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...
    • "Edward Maryon". The Musical Times. 95 (1333): 152. March 1954. ... his magnum opus being 'The Cycle of Life', a heptalogy ...
  5. Michael Wright (January 2, 2000). "The Marcel wave". The Times. 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.
    • Alan Farrell (2007). High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans. p. 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. p. 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. Fred Inglis (November 4, 2000). "News as history: history as fiction". Financial Times Books. p. 5. This is the final volume of Vidal's astonishing heptalogy, Narratives of Empire...
  10. Albert Freybe (1911). "Rinckart (Rinkart), Martin". In Samuel Macauley Jackson (ed.). The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 10. Funk & Wagnalls Company. p. 41. Retrieved 2008-02-09. A third drama, the Indulgentiarius confusus, was written..., forming the third part of the author's intended heptalogy on Luther.
  11. Willard Thorp (1960). American Writing in the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press. p. 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. "Short List". The Village Voice. May 18, 1999. Thornton Wilder left this heptalogy of one-acts unfinished at his death in 1975
  13. Michael Moschos (September 25, 1992). "Obituary: Alexandros Kotzias". The Independent Gazette. p. 31. He completed four in this projected "heptalogy" under the general title "The Children of Kronos"
    • James Woodall (February 16, 2004). "F.I.N.D. Schaubühne, Berlin". Financial Times Arts. p. 8. Argentine Rafael Spregelburd's Stupidity, the fourth in The Hieronymus Bosch Heptalogy series, is a sprawling farce...
    • "Casa awards start the literary party in Cuba". Cuba Headlines. January 12, 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-09.
  15. "New Game of Thrones Trailer; Exclusive Preview on April 3rd". Screen Rant. March 7, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-08. |
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