Songs Beyond Mankind

"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.

Year

2013

Language

English

Series

Bernardo Lecture Series -- No. 18

Publisher

Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton

Editions

1

Pages

50

ISBN

9781438452647

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