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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awards, Criticism Category"
"A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year"
"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year"
"Dames considers the nature of the chapter, a subjective division that nonetheless organizes our understanding of life and literature. . . . For Dames, form begets function—and neither is above scrutiny." * New Yorker *
"Dames shows exactly why chapters are worth our attention. . . . A pleasing investigation." * Kirkus Reviews *
"[Dames] transforms the chapter into an extraordinarily revealing object of both literary analysis and cultural history. . . . Although Dames doesn’t claim to have written a comprehensive history of the chapter in every kind of book, one can hardly imagine a fuller record of the tradition that led to their use in the modern novel. . . . One comes away from
The Chapter with a new appreciation for the technical challenges of long fictions."
---Catherine Gallagher, Chronicle of Higher Education"This fascinating study causes the reader to reflect on narrative sequences in time, and on the flow of time in reading and life." * Paradigm Explorer *
