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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... Dante's oltraggio pushes us into an unchartable domain of ever - expanding theological possibilities where knowledge runs out , and memory trails off , and language ( at least tem- porarily ) breaks down , but immediate experience of ...
... Dante's meaning , of course , but it suggests an allegorical image for the Commedia by recalling the ban- queting table of the Convivio ( 1.1.10–13 ) where he spread out all his philo- sophical knowledge for the reader to sample . In ...
... Dante's guide must be sacrificed to ensure the supremacy of the Commedia over its classical sources . Passing beyond Limbo , Dante and Virgil must confront the metamor- phoses of the ignoble majority of the Damned . Some appear like ...
... Dante's theodicy . To Feltham's analysis of the hyper - Ovidian outrages done to the infernal body , I have contributed some observations about the Bataillean significance of the homoerotic shape - shifting in the Eighth Circle . My ...
... Dante through Beatrice's desire is not a cool ascetic stillness but an exuberant love - dance heated up by the planet ... Dante's love - driven universe , which , despite the strictness of Catholic sexual morality , transfigured Cunizza ...
Contenido
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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 |