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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... dead by following Dante into the Inferno to reflect on his ini- tial encounters with the Unorthodox . Part 2 ( Trasmutar ) examines how the Damned " change over " from one shape to another to reveal the moral and psychosexual effects of ...
... Dead expands its pulsating flow of images over more than forty mesmerizing postmodern hours - a creative excess to rival the oltrag- gio of the Sacred Poem . These films , Testa concludes , do not modernize the Sacred Poem or even ...
... ( 1953 ) , 90 . 9 Having spent three days with my Dante students watching The Book of All the Dead at The University of Western Ontario ( November 8-10 , 2002 ) —a marathon screening at which the filmmaker was present in the 56 INTRODUCTION.
... dead live in the mem- ory of the living : wherefore the intention of the living can be directed to them . -Thomas Aquinas1 ́irgil is the only soul in Limbo who appears to suffer damnation twice : Vit first , after his death , when Minos ...
... dead through their own language - not just through the official medium of Church Latin . Given the relatively plastic status of Purgatory in thirteenth- and fourteenth - century Catholic theology , I believe that Dante was attempting to ...
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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 |