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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... Sacred Poem ! The ineffability topos impels us to believe that if there is a way back to the sacred surplus of his final experience , it must lie through his miraculous expression of a fan- tasy of self - authorizing orthodoxy projected ...
... Sacred than a leap over the ultimate event - horizon separating humanity from divin- ity , a sacrilegious move more shocking than David's dance before the Ark , a trajectory of flaming impropriety guaranteed to explode the statute of ...
... Sacred Poem his beliefs expand beyond the limited classical fare on his earlier philosoph- ical menu . His banquet is now spread out upon “ the table of love ” [ la mensa d'amor ] ( Purg . 13.27 ) , a credenza for the sacramental ...
... Sacred Poem " carries across " the language barrier between Italian and English and across the centuries between the medieval and modern periods . Just as the spirits in the Heavenly Eagle look back to David , " the singer of the Holy ...
... Sacred in Catholic culture , including binaries based on gender ( man / woman ) , rationality ( man / beast ) , mortality ( man / god ) , morality ( man / demon ) , and sexual- ity ( man / sodomite ) . According to Carolynn Lund - Mead ...
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 |