{"product_id":"songs-beyond-mankind-lino-pertile-9781438452647","title":"Songs Beyond Mankind: Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the preservation of the integrity of humanity through literature in the hells described by Dante in his \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand by Primo Levi in \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurvival in Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Songs Beyond Mankind: Poetry and the Lager from Dante to Primo Levi\" is the eighteenth in a series of publications occasioned by the annual Bernardo Lecture at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS) at Binghamton University. This series offers public lectures that have been given by distinguished medieval and Renaissance scholars on topics and figures representative of these two important historical, religious, and intellectual periods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor 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 \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e and Primo Levi in \u003ci\u003eSurvival in Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lino Pertile\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438452640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438452647\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Distribution Partners\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.20d","brand":"Lino Pertile","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453631181055,"sku":"9781438452647","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7eb28947-1d50-49ca-9844-1aa13efebeb2.jpg?v=1777301301","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/songs-beyond-mankind-lino-pertile-9781438452647","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}