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Autore |
Butler Shane <1970-> |
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Titolo |
The matter of the page [[electronic resource] ] : essays in search of ancient and medieval authors / / Shane Butler |
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Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-91642-4 |
9786612916427 |
0-299-24823-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (174 p.) |
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Collana |
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Wisconsin studies in classics |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Classical literature - Criticism, Textual |
Literature, Medieval - Criticism, Textual |
Authorship |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Presenting the Author -- The Backward Glance -- Myself Sick -- Latin Decomposition -- The Erasable Cicero -- The Surface of the Page -- The Folded Page -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index Locorum. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Ancient and medieval literary texts often call attention to their existence as physical objects. Shane Butler helps us to understand why. Arguing that writing has always been as much a material struggle as an intellectual one, The Matter of the Page offers timely lessons for the digital age about how creativity works and why literature moves us. Butler begins with some considerations about the materiality of the literary text, both as a process (the draft) and a product (the book), and he traces the curious history of "the page" from scroll to manuscript codex to printed book and beyond. He then offers a series of unforgettable portraits of authors at work: Thucydides struggling to describe his own diseased body; Vergil ready to burn an epic poem he could not finish; Lucretius wrestling with words even as he fights the madness that will drive him to suicide; Cicero mesmerized by the thought of erasing his entire career; Seneca plumbing the depths of the soul in the wax of his tablets; and Dhuoda, who sees the book she |
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