Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi
by
Rivkah Zim
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
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...