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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... Church have been read into the poem at every turn , why do we still feel the need for “ retheologizing ” Dante at the oltraggio moment ? Is it because we feel the frustrating failure of theological discourse itself 4 INTRODUCTION.
... Church down below can even begin to assess his unorthodox revelation about the genesis of the poem up above . What we yearn for at the speculatively expansive moment of oltraggio is not a new series of theological glosses , then , but ...
... church and his world in the image of his poem , I have labelled each of the six parts of Dante & the Unorthodox with an Italian infinitive drawn from the rich vocabulary of transgression and transcendence in the Commedia . Each ...
... Church has historically exiled to the transgressive side of the faith- frontier . Critical attention throughout the volume is accordingly focused on the poet's response to particular doctrines traditionally and currently condemned by ...
... Church's solemn parading of scriptural law , with her gender - reversing epithet echoing throughout the Edenic locus of primor- dial taboo ( Benedictus qui venis : Purg . 30.19 ) ; yet however terrible it might appear to the anti ...
Contenido
1 | |
63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |