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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... Limbo : At the Margins of Orthodoxy Amilcare A. Iannucci Saving Virgil Ed King Sacrificing Virgil Mira Gerhard PART II — Trasmutar ix 1 63 83 107 Dido Alighieri : Gender Inversion in the Francesca Episode Carolynn Lund - Mead 121 Fuming ...
... Limbo ( from Latin limbus , meaning " margin " ) and shows how the poet's critical response to thirteenth - century scholastic decisions about the afterlife of noble pagans and unbaptized infants ironically reveals the " marginality ...
... Limbo , Dante and Virgil must confront the metamor- phoses of the ignoble majority of the Damned . Some appear like birds whirled in a stormy blast ; others resemble cattle in a herd bound for slaughter ; still others recall wet otters ...
... Limbo ) to complete the triad of epic poets on the summit of humanist culture . Photo credit : Scala Archives Raphael , Disputa del Sacra- mento ( 1509 ) , Stanza della Segnatura , Vatican . As the only figure to appear in both ...
... Limbo ) is comparable to discussing whether the prophet Elijah actually dies when he's whooshed up to heaven in God's chariot . In other words , it's a non - issue , and we should be severely indifferent to any answers that such ...
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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 |