Bøker av Shane Butler

The first critical analysis to embrace a wide and representative selection of John Addington Symonds's work, beyond his famous essays. It explores Symonds as a complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself, and follows his engagement with the art and literature of classical antiquity.

Hundreds perished in Rome's Second Proscription, but one victim is remembered above all others. Charting a course through Cicero's celebrated career, Shane Butler examines the relationship between speech and writing in Roman oratory.

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.