![]() Even though they wrote before the era of e-books, they used the chapter titles in a reader-enticing way. ![]() These literary authors used the chapter titles to enhance and comment on the content of the chapter. Each chapter embodies a certain kind of knot, like “Love Knot”, “Strangle Knot” and “A Rolling Hitch.” Most of the chapter titles are the names of sailors’ knots, or other naval terms. David Foster Wallace used them in Infinite Jest, and John Barth titled his chapters in The End of the Road.Īnd in the 1990s, Annie Proulx used chapter titles to great effect in her Pulitzer Prize winner The Shipping News. However, some of the postmoderns later ventured into chapter title waters. ![]() Hemingway didn’t need no stinkin’ chapter titles. A reader flipping through a book in the shop could get an idea what kind of things were going to happen in the novel if it had descriptive chapter headers.īut yes, I know chapter titles went out of style in the age of modern minimalism. Hey, those 18 th century writers knew their marketing. What is this, the 18th century? What am I supposed to write? Something like this?Ĭhapter the first, in which our hero is born, discovers that fire is hot, learns to pull up his own breeches, and slays a smallish dragon. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.“Chapter titles!?” sez you. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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