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A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to todayWhy 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...
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Dames, Nicholas, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Chapter : A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century / Nicholas Dames. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023] 2023 1 online resource (384 p.) : 15 b/w illus. 13 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Part I. Envisioning the Chapter -- Introduction -- Ante Chapter: On Segmented Time -- 1. In Which an Object Is Proposed for Analysis -- Part II. Two Millennia of Capitulation, from Heading to Unit -- Introduction -- 2. On the Shape of the Classical Heading (the Threshold) -- 3. Concerning the Division of the Gospels (the Abstract Syncopation) -- 4. How Fifteenth-Century Remediators Did Their Work (the Cut, the Fade) -- Part III. Dividing Time in, and beyond, the Novel -- Introduction -- 5. Attitudes of the Early Novel Chapter (the Postural, the Elongated) -- 6. The Repertoire of the Chapter circa 1865 (the Tacit) -- 7. The Days of Our Novelistic Lives (the Circadian) -- 8. The Poignancy of Sequence (the Antique-Diminutive) -- Post Chapter: The Future of a Convention (1970-) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to todayWhy 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023) Books and reading History. Books History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691253633?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691253633 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691253633/original |
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