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The consolations of writing : literary strategies of resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi /
"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 antiqui...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- In defence of civilization. The disciplines of reason and lyric poetry: Anicius Boethius, of the consolation of philosophy (c. 524-5): the foundations of resistance in dialogue and lyric
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, letters and papers from prison (1943-45): Christian More, a dialogue of comfort against tribulation: a political guide to the dilemmas of religious conscience (1934-35)
- Antonio Gramsci, Prison letters (1926-37): dialogue in dialectic
- Preservation of self. Memory and the prisoner: self-justification in images of grace and disgrace abounding: John Bunyan, grace abounding to the chief of sinners (1666): writing the eternally present self
- Oscar Wilde, De profundis (1897): a pastoral letter of disgrace abounding
- Memorial narratives as salvation for the feminine self. Marie-Jeanne Roland, Memoirs (1793): writing history herself
- Anne Frank, The diary and tales from the secret annexe (1942-44): life writing
- The consolations of imagination and lyric poetry. Jean Cassou, trente-trois sonnets composes au secret (1943)
- Irina Ratushinskaya, Pencil letter and No I'm not afraid (1982-86): Preserving the conviction of a poet. Testimony for mankind with hindsight and beyond resistance: Primo Levi, If this is a man (1947) and Ad ora incerta (1947-86): resisting the demolition of a man
- Primo Levi, Moments of reprieve (1981): in defence of a civilization
- Conclusions: beyond testimony.