The Chapter : : A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century /

The Chapter : : A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century / / Nicholas Dames.

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,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 15 b/w illus. 13 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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