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

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

A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today Why do books have chapters?...
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Author: Nicholas Dames
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The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Dames, Nicholas

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

CHF 79.50
The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century by Dames, Nicholas

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

CHF 79.50
Author: Nicholas Dames
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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.

Author: Nicholas Dames
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.30w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9780691135199


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023

About the Author
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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