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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... 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 Accidie : The Sin of Dante's Gurglers John Thorp ... 151 Heresy ...
... Virgil , despite his lack of “ the true faith " [ la vera credenza ] ( Purg . 22.77 ) , uses the word at a crucial testing moment . Noticing Dante's reluctance to believe that the flames of Mount Purgatory will do him no harm , the ...
... Virgil might eventually be saved , Mira Gerhard in the third essay con- siders the significance of sacrifice in Virgil's tragedìa ( Inf . 20.113 ) to sug- gest why Dante's guide must be sacrificed to ensure the supremacy of the Commedia ...
... Virgil's use of the name " Soddoma ” ( Inf . 11.50 ) to signify the second ring of the Seventh Cir- cle where sins of violence against God and Nature are punished , Single- ton " proves " Dante's strict adherence to Catholic sexual ...
... Virgil's salvation ( or his borderline potential to be saved ) persists among serious readers of the poem because Dante's shamelessly unorthodox text opens up a wide range of theolog- ical possibilities that orthodox Catholicism ...
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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 |