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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... amorous delight in the beauty of Creation , we cannot turn to any Catholic author- ity in the Heaven of the Wise for clear terms or clever arguments that can furnish us with conclusive understandings of his vision . Rather , he demands ...
... amorous saint . In the first essay of part 5 , Bart Testa reflects on the " chasm " of cul- tural history separating Dante from three filmmakers - Michelangelo Antonioni , Stan Brakhage , and R. Bruce Elder — 10 INTRODUCTION.
... amorous actualization of God's cre- ative impetus or energeia , so Elder , in turn , interprets the inwardness of Brakhage's film as a sign of his aesthetic desire to release energeia back into the world through the capacity of film as ...
... amorous carol around Beatrice in the Heaven of the Sun , Dante - pilgrim hears the melodious voice of St. Bonaventure commend the relentless force with which a legendary champion of orthodoxy once struck the theologically fragile Church ...
... amorous dynamism , aesthetic impetus , doctrinal flexibility , concordant diversity , and prophetic expansiveness of the Commedia . Once Beatrice has revealed to his admiring gaze the " double dance " of her love and wisdom [ doppia ...
Contenido
1 | |
63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |