Nicholas Dames 
The Chapter [EPUB ebook] 
A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
Shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society
A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today
Why do books have chapters? With this seemingly simple question, Nicholas Dames embarks on a literary journey spanning two millennia, revealing how an ancient editorial technique became a universally recognized component of narrative art and a means to register the sensation of time.
Dames begins with the textual compilations of the Roman world, where chapters evolved as a tool to organize information. He goes on to discuss the earliest divisional systems of the Gospels and the segmentation of medieval romances, describing how the chapter took on new purpose when applied to narrative texts and how narrative segmentation gave rise to a host of aesthetic techniques. Dames shares engaging and in-depth readings of influential figures, from Sterne, Goethe, Tolstoy, and Dickens to George Eliot, Machado de Assis, B. S. Johnson, Agnès Varda, Uwe Johnson, Jennifer Egan, and László Krasznahorkai. He illuminates the sometimes tacit, sometimes dramatic ways in which the chapter became a kind of reckoning with time and a quiet but persistent feature of modernity.
Ranging from ancient tablets and scrolls to contemporary fiction and film, The Chapter provides a compelling, elegantly written history of a familiar compositional mode that readers often take for granted and offers a new theory of how this versatile means of dividing narrative sculpts our experience of time.

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A propos de l’auteur

Nicholas Dames is the Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities at Columbia University and an editor in chief of
Public Books. He is the author of
The Physiology of the Novel: Reading, Neural Science, and the Form of Victorian Fiction and
Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810–1870.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 384 ● ISBN 9780691253633 ● Taille du fichier 18.2 MB ● Maison d’édition Princeton University Press ● Lieu Princeton ● Pays US ● Publié 2023 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 9012085 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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