Matter of the Page - Essays in Search of Ancient and Medieval Authors

Informationen zum Autor Shane Butler is professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of The Hand of Cicero and the editor and translator of the Latin correspondence of Renaissance humanist Angelo Poliziano. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Shane Butler, Shane (University of Bristol Butler
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.12.2010
• EAN: 9780299248246
• ISBN: 978-0-299-24824-6
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Paperback); Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies