Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of TransgressionJames L. Miller Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2005 M04 22 - 566 páginas During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false prophet—by Friar Guido Vernani. From Vernani’s inquisitorial viewpoint, the author of the Commedia “seduced” his readers by offering them “a vessel of demonic poison” mixed with poetic fantasies designed to destroy the “healthful truth” of Catholicism. Thanks to such pious vituperations, a sulphurous fume of unorthodoxy has persistently clung to the mantle of Dante’s poetic fame. The primary critical purpose of Dante & the Unorthodox is to examine the aesthetic impulses behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s allegory of mid-life divergence from the papally prescribed “way of salvation.” Marking the septicentennial of his exile, the book’s eighteen critical essays, three excerpts from an allegorical drama, and a portfolio of fourteen contemporary artworks address the issue of the poet’s conflicted relation to orthodoxy. By bringing the unorthodox out of the realm of “secret things,” by uncensoring them at every turn, Dante dared to oppose the censorious regime of Latin Christianity with a transgressive zeal more threatening to papal authority than the demonic hostility feared by Friar Vernani. |
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... canto per meeting . The members of this group , which came to be called the Circolo Dantesco di London , represented many disciplines in the University : English , German , philosophy , classics , music , chemistry , physiology ...
... cantos of unsurpassable rhetorical virtuosity to read the temporary " failure " of his words as a cue for the imminent triumph of speech over silence — the ecstatic silence that paradoxically gives rise to the inexhaustible " effability ...
... Cantos , Pound associated Dante with unorthodoxy in two distinct ways . Politically he rejoiced in Dante's relentless attacks on the economic system of his day , with its simoniacal popes and avaricious emperors and rapacious usurers ...
... Cantos express Pound's poignant yet predictable failure to envision Paradise . Pound looms large in the second and third essays of part 5. In Elder's magisterial study of Brakhage's The Dante Quartet , Pound's unorthodox reading of the ...
... cantos ? The high fantasy of its genesis as a cos- mopoetic Big Bang ( the spark , of course , was never small ) is reduced to a deceptive figure of speech by Barolini's detheologizing bathos . No won- der she regards Allan's anagogic ...
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63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |