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

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

Anti-Oedipus still stands as a controversial contribution to a much-needed dialogue on the nature of free thinking

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I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole leads us from Canetti’s polyglot childhood to his mature preoccupations

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national and global events to contextualize and understand tensions that exist within Malaysian society

this is the first publication of his benchmark 1803 edition since 1989

she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world

about the supernatural are important in all societies

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in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal

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Still Pictures begins with the image of a morose young girl on a train