Songs Beyond Mankind
Subtitle: Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi
By: Lino Pertile
Series: Bernardo Lecture Series -- No. 18
Publisher: Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Binghamton, New York
Language: eng; ger; ita; lat
Number of pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9781438452647
Subjects: Italian poetry; History and criticism
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-42).