Isbn: 9780299248246 - the matter of the page: essays in search of ancient and medieval authors (6 risultati)

Softbound. Condizione: Very Good. Octavo, paper covers, x, 158 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

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Condizione: New. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Paperback). Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249. . 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Softcover. Condizione: Gut. 158 p. Guter Zustand / In good condition. - 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. ISBN 9780299248246 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 248.…

Condizione: New. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Paperback). Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 249. . 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.