The Consolations of Writing : : Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi / / Rivkah Zim.
Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- PART I. In Defense of Civilization
- CHAPTER 1. The Disciplines of Reason and Lyric Poetry
- CHAPTER 2. Creative Dialogues with Textual Partners, Past and Present
- PART II. Preservation of Self
- CHAPTER 3. Memory and Self-Justification: Images of Grace and Disgrace Abounding
- CHAPTER 4. Memorial Narratives as Salvation for the Feminine Self
- CHAPTER 5. The Consolations of Imagination and Lyric Poetry
- PART III. Testimony for Mankind
- CHAPTER 6. With Hindsight and Beyond Resistance
- Conclusion: Beyond Testimony
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX