Poetry against torture
Subtitle: criticism, history, and the human
By: Paul A. Bové.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9789622099265; 9789622099272
Subjects: Poetry -- Social aspects; Poetry; Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects; Social evolution; Social control; Humanism; Liberalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-145) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vico and philological criticism; title: Philology and poetry, the case against Descartes; title: Erich Auerbach and invention of man; title: John Stuart Mill, On liberty and criticism; title: John Stuart Mill and the limits of self-making; title: Michel Foucault and the critical care of the self; title: William Empson and the mind: poetry, torture, and civilization.