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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... . Miller. La bellezza ch'io vidi si trasmoda non pur di là da noi , ma certo io credo che solo il suo fattor tutta la goda . —Paradiso 30.19-21 Acknowledgments Contents Introduction : Retheologizing Dante James Miller PART I.
... Paradiso Bonnie MacLachlan . . . 310 PART IV - Traslatar " Dantescan Light " : Ezra Pound and Eccentric Dante Scholars Leon Surette Ezra Pound in the Earthly Paradise Matthew Reynolds 327 346 PART V - Tralucere Dante and Cinema : Film ...
... Paradiso 33.55-71 he Dantean keyword for this volume is oltraggio . Mere “ abundance " Nor does abundance , stumbles towards it abstractly in a thudding divinity - school way . Since Dante uses it with the ecstatically redundant ...
... Paradiso . My essay on Dante's ( still ) highly unorthodox response to sexual diver- sity links Statius's lecture on what goes on in the human womb to the pur- gation of same - sex lovers on the Cornice of the Lustful and to the ...
... Paradiso . The third social context to which the volume owes its dialectical energy is the cycle of undergraduate Dante seminars I have been teaching since 1992 for the comparative literature and culture program in the Department of ...
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Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |