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5 - Chapters

from Part I - Parts of Prose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2021

By
James Williams
Edited by
Daniel Tyler
Daniel Tyler
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter considers chapters themselves as a ‘form of punctuation’, and so they structure our experience of time in reading novels while also offering interventions into our understanding of time in the rest of our lives. This chapter on chapters tracks the history of this principle of narrative organisation as well as various playful attempts to test or defy its conventional limits, showing that chapter division is itself a stylistic device.

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chapterheadingstimestructurerhythmLaurence SterneB. S. Johnson
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The Cambridge Companion to Prose , pp. 78 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Chapters
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Prose
  • Online publication: 05 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939201.007
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  • Chapters
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Prose
  • Online publication: 05 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939201.007
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  • Chapters
  • Edited by Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Prose
  • Online publication: 05 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108939201.007
Available formats
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