Catherine Brown

Chapters: Why Writers Have Them, and How To Read Them

March 2014

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Why are nearly all long prose works divided into chapters? This lecture considers the uses of chapters for writers and readers, when and how they are given titles or epigraphs – and how they begin, end, and change the meaning of the works of which they form part.

 

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Catherine Brown