Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismShortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa SocietyA history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to todayWhy 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 t...

How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novel critics who wer...

With Joyce, Proust, and Faulkner in mind, we have come to understand the novel as a form with intimate ties to the impulses and processes of memory. This study contends that this common perception is an anachronism that distorts our view of the novel. Based on an investigation of representative novels, Amnesiac Selves shows that the Victorian novel bears no such secure relation to memory, and, in fact, it tries to hide, evade, and eliminate remembering. Dames argues that the notab...

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Le procès de l’affaire du collier touche à sa fin et déconsidère la reine. Le déficit du royaume exacerbe les rivalités politiques. Nicolas Le Floch est saisi par Le Noir, nouveau directeur de la Bibliothèque du roi, de la disparition d’un conservateur au cabinet des médailles.Quelle est l’identité du cadavre décapité découvert dans une maison démolie du Pont Notre-Dame? Qu’augurent les informations transmises par Lady Charwel, alias La Satin, concernant un complo...

A true story about me and my dad helping Laurie Wenger create the play like a champion today sign at Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana in 1986. Lourie played a pivotal role in creating a symbol for unity in Notre Dame Football. The sign is known around the world for being connected with Notre Dame history. This story is a behind the scenes look into the ups and downs of Lourie creating the sign by our close church family who would help her with rides from her apartment in downtown Mishawak...

« Rien ne poussera plus sur cette terre » écrit le simple soldat Clerfeuille en évoquant le Chemin des Dames et les ravages de l'artillerie, pourtant deux semaines avant le déclenchement de la fameuse offensive du 16 avril 1917. Après deux ans et demi de guerre, et malgré la défiance de plusieurs généraux, le gouvernement soutient le plan du commandant en chef Nivelle : prendre le plateau du Chemin des Dames, percer le front et l'emporter.Près d'un million d'hommes sont rassemblés ...

Hi Reason and Belief in God* is a landmark collection of essays by prominent Christian philosophers, originally published in 1983 and reissued by the University of Notre Dame Press. Edited by Alvin Plantinga and Nicholas Wolterstorff, this volume explores the relationship between religious belief and philosophical reasoning, challenging the dominant assumption that faith and rationality are inherently incompatible. The book brings together leading thinkers from the "Reformed epistemology" ...

Every year, thousands of people pilgrimmage to South Bend, Indiana to visit the campus of the University of Notre Dame for sporting events, academic conferences, or just for a tour. From the Golden Dome on top of the main building, to the grotto hidden behind the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, to the mural of "Touchdown Jesus" that covers the wall of the Hesburgh Library, the structures and architecture of the campus hold special meaning for these visitors. In Signs of Grace Father...

This classic of Christian apologetics seeks to persuade the skeptic that there are good reasons to believe in God even though it is impossible to understand the deity fully. First written over a century ago, the Grammar of Assent speaks as powerfully to us today as it did to its first readers. Because of the informal, non-technical character of Newman's work, it still retains its immediacy as an invaluable guide to the nature of religious belief. A new introduction by Nicholas Las...

À travers ses douze homélies prononcées pour la fête de Notre-Dame de Lourdes, entre 1951 et 1970, Mgr Théas rappelle comment l’Église et la Vierge Marie nous font bénéficier du salut donné dans le mystère de la croix.Dans ses méditations, l’évêque approfondit le sens des apparitions de la Vierge Immaculée et montre les conséquences de l’accueil que Bernadette Soubirous réserve à Marie en son âme. Pierre-Marie Théas (1894-1977) a é...

L’homme d’affaires Derace Kingsley engage le détective privé Philip Marlowe pour retrouver son épouse, Crystal, dont il n’a plus de nouvelles. Femme fantasque, Crystal avait annoncé à son mari qu’elle souhaitait s’enfuir au Mexique avec un certain Chris Lavery. Or, Kingsley a croisé Lavery quelques jours plus tôt, lequel a prétendu ne pas savoir où était Crystal. Marlowe se rend donc à Puma Point, dernier lieu où Crystal a été vue. Il y rencontre Bill Chess, voisin et gardien du chalet des...