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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... Purgatory and Paradise Jennifer Fraser 290 The Cyprian Redeemed : Venereal Influence in Paradiso Bonnie MacLachlan . . . 310 PART IV - Traslatar " Dantescan Light " : Ezra Pound and Eccentric Dante Scholars Leon Surette Ezra Pound in ...
... Purgatory will do him no harm , the Roman poet suggests that the pil- grim hold the hem of his garment in the fire and " find out for [ him ] self " [ fatti far credenza ] ( Purg . 27.29-30 ) . In Dante's universe you don't simply ...
... Purgatory , however , Dante sees it swiftly dispatched by Beatrice : Poscia vidi avventarsi ne la cuna del triunfal veiculo una volpe che d'ogne pasto buon parea digiuna ; ma , riprendendo lei di laide colpe , la donna mia la volse in ...
... Sodomites high up on Mount Purgatory where the way of salvation turns into a “ burning road " [ cammino acceso ] ( Purg . 26.28 ) , Singleton literally glosses over the poet's highly unusual respect for the dignity of same 38 INTRODUCTION.
... Purgatory . A reader who thinks of this exceptional reprieve as a solid fact outside the poem may indeed be suffering from " narrative credulity " ; but the same charge cannot be levelled at one who accepts it as a theological ...
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 |