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Subject:
Literary terms
Category: Reference, Education and News Asked by: fussbudget-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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21 Jun 2005 11:44 PDT
Expires: 21 Jul 2005 11:44 PDT Question ID: 535569 |
A three-novel series is a trilogy. A four-novel series is a tetralogy. What do you call a series of two novels? |
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Re: Literary terms
From: pinkfreud-ga on 21 Jun 2005 12:14 PDT |
It doesn't appear in any dictionary that I know of, and language purists are not likely to accept it, but "duology" is sometimes used: ://www.google.com/search?biw=772&hl=en&q=duology |
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Re: Literary terms
From: frde-ga on 22 Jun 2005 02:08 PDT |
A tetrology is also often called a quartet |
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Re: Literary terms
From: bikon-ga on 04 Jul 2005 10:03 PDT |
I think trilogy decomposes as tri- (three) + -logy (discourse, according to the OED). Original meaning : "A series of three tragedies performed in Athens at festival of Dionysus" Therefore, one could write series of two works as "dialogy" (rather than -- at least I think -- "duology"). I'm not sure anybody actually does this however. |
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Re: Literary terms
From: pinkfreud-ga on 04 Jul 2005 11:47 PDT |
I agree that "dialogy" is a more pleasing construction than "duology," but "duology" has the advantage of being in actual use. |
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Re: Literary terms
From: fussbudget-ga on 04 Jul 2005 16:25 PDT |
Duology is improperly formed, having one foot in Latin and the other in Greek. But that doesn't completely rule it out as an English word. After all, nobody minds television, a hardy hybrid which exists because telescope was already taken, and transvision--which would have been acceptable to purists--doesn't seem to carry the right sense. Anyway, I'm happy with duology. Thanks. |
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