Songs Beyond Mankind
Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi
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Author
Publication
2013 - Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
12,500 words, Guess
Page Count
50 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL31164701M
- ISBN-139781438452647
- ISBN-101438452640
- Library of Congress Control Number2013034954
- OCLC Control Number857234450
and 1 more
- Better World Books9781438452647
Classifications
- DDC851/.009
- LCCPQ4092 .P38 2013
- LCCPQ4092.P38 2013
Description
"Professor Pertile's lecture, "Songs Beyond Mankind," asks whether there is a degree of suffering and degradation beyond which a man or woman ceases to be a human being, a point beyond which our soul dies and what survives is pure physiology. And, if yes, to what extent may literature be capable of preserving our humanity in the face of unspeakable pain? These are some of the issues that this lecture addresses by considering two systems of suffering, the hells described by Dante in his Inferno and Primo Levi in Survival in Auschwitz."--Publisher's website.
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