LEADER 03632nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910815436303321 005 20240418054031.0 010 $a1-282-91642-4 010 $a9786612916427 010 $a0-299-24823-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055518 035 $a(OCoLC)699519531 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10432119 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000439457 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11273908 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000439457 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10465223 035 $a(PQKB)10173797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445131 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12025 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445131 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10432119 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL291642 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055518 100 $a20100323d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe matter of the page$b[electronic resource] $eessays in search of ancient and medieval authors /$fShane Butler 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (174 p.) 225 1 $aWisconsin studies in classics 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-299-24824-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aAncient and medieval literary texts often call attention to their existence as physical objects. Shane Butler helps us to understand why. Arguing that writing has always been as much a material struggle as an intellectual one, The Matter of the Page offers timely lessons for the digital age about how creativity works and why literature moves us. Butler begins with some considerations about the materiality of the literary text, both as a process (the draft) and a product (the book), and he traces the curious history of "the page" from scroll to manuscript codex to printed book and beyond. He then offers a series of unforgettable portraits of authors at work: Thucydides struggling to describe his own diseased body; Vergil ready to burn an epic poem he could not finish; Lucretius wrestling with words even as he fights the madness that will drive him to suicide; Cicero mesmerized by the thought of erasing his entire career; Seneca plumbing the depths of the soul in the wax of his tablets; and Dhuoda, who sees the book she writes as a door, a tunnel, a womb. Butler reveals how the work of writing transformed each of these authors into his or her own first reader, and he explains what this metamorphosis teaches us about how we too should read. All Greek and Latin quotations are translated into English and technical matters are carefully explained for general readers, with scholarly details in the notes. 410 0$aWisconsin studies in classics. 606 $aClassical literature$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xCriticism, Textual 606 $aAuthorship 615 0$aClassical literature$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xCriticism, Textual. 615 0$aAuthorship. 676 $a880.091 700 $aButler$b Shane$f1970-$01687258 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815436303321 996 $aThe matter of the page$94060609 997 $aUNINA