The matter of the page : essays in search of ancient and medieval authors / Shane Butler.
The matter of the page : essays in search of ancient and medieval authors / Shane Butler.
The matter of the page : essays in search of ancient and medieval authors / Shane Butler.
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Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
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N880.091/1
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English
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Physical content
x, 158 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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The Backward Glance --
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Myself Sick --
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Latin Decomposition --
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The Erasable Cicero --
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The Surface of the Page --
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The Folded Page.
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Publisher
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2011.
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Wisconsin
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
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 SStruggle 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.
"Innovative both stylistically and methodologically, Butler's outstanding book has the feel of a dual elegy--for the author, whom it seeks to resuscitate as more than an abstract theoretical concept, and for the vanishing (or at least de-materializing) page in an ever accelerating digital universe. The Matter of the Page should appeal broadly, from...
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The matter of the page : essays in search of ancient and medieval authors / Shane Butler.
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Wisconsin studies in classics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2011.
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N880.091/1
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74Vv6xrLz66d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vv6xrLz66d
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ISBN
0299248232 (e-book)
9780299248246 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299248240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299248239 (e-book)
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880.091
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991007006819702626
