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04274aam a2200445 i 4500 001 8772154EF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230318t20232023njua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0691135193 020 $a 9780691135199 035 $a (OCoLC)1372277676 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d TOH $d OCLCF $d NAM $d IUO $d OCLCO $d JAS $d PSC $d QGK $d SDB $d TXHLS $d MBB $d OCLCO $d CLE $d ZQP $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 4 $a Z1003 $b .D36 2023 082 04 $a 028.9 $2 23 100 1 $a Dames, Nicholas, $d 1970- $e author. 245 14 $a The chapter : $b a segmented history from antiquity to the twenty-first century / $c Nicholas Dames. 246 30 $a Segmented history from antiquity to the twenty-first century 264 1 $a Princeton ; $b Princeton University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xii, 370 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a "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, Agn's Varda, Uwe Johnson, Jennifer Egan, and LaÌszloÌ 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."-- $c Provided by vendor. 505 00 $g Post Chapter: -- $t The Future of a Convention (1970-) -- Uwe Johnson -- Egan -- Krasznahorkai. $g Ante Chapter: -- $t On Segmented Time -- $g 1 -- $t In Which an Object Is Proposed for Analysis -- $g Part II. -- $t Two Millennia of Capitulation, From Heading to Unit -- $g 2 -- $t On the Shape of the Classical Heading (the Threshold) -- Tabula Bembina -- Augustine -- Arrian's Epictetus -- $g 3 -- $t Concerning the Division of the Gospels (the Abstract Syncopation) -- Eusebius -- Alexandrinus -- the Paris Bible -- $g 4 -- $t How Fifteenth-Century Remediators Did Their Work (the Cut, the Fade) -- The Burgundian ChreÌtien de Troyes -- Caxton's Malory -- $g Part III. -- $t Dividing Time In, and Beyond, The Novel -- $g 5 -- $t Attitudes of the Early Novel Chapter (the Postural, the Elongated) -- Locke -- Sterne -- Equiano -- Goethe -- $g 6 -- $t The Repertoire of the Chapter circa 1865 (the Tacit) -- Tolstoy -- Gaskell -- $g 7 -- $t The Days of Our Novelistic Lives (the Circadian) -- Dickens -- Eliot -- McGregor -- $g 8 -- $t The Poignancy of Sequence (the Antique-Diminutive) -- Machado -- B. S. Johnson -- Varda -- $g Post Chapter: -- $t The Future of a Convention (1970-) -- Uwe Johnson -- Egan -- Krasznahorkai. 650 0 $a Books and reading $x History. 650 0 $a Books $x History. 650 0 $a Composition (Language arts) $x History. 650 6 $a Livres et lecture $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Livres $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Composition (Exercice litteÌraire) $x Histoire. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Books $2 fast 650 7 $a Books and reading $2 fast 654 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a History $2 fast 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780691253633 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502014205.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012145.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8772154EF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search