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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... Artists James Miller .. 505 Calling Dante : A Portfolio of Words and Images Andrew Pawlowski and Zbigniew Pospieszynski 509 Calling Dante : From Dante on the Steps of Immortality Andrew Pawlowski 517 Notes on Contributors 531 Index 535 ...
... . Part 6 pushes the reception - history of Dante even further away from verbum towards pure visio in the domain of contemporary art . Two Polish- Canadian artists , Andrew Pawlowski and Zbigniew Pospieszynski , express INTRODUCTION 11.
... artists within the vortex of aesthetic debates and creative controversies stirred up since the mid - fourteenth century when the poet's first illuminators set out to render and rival his visions picto- rially . Thus , in its dialectical ...
... artists , eccentric visionaries , political subversives , feminist critics , and queer theorists who have been ... artistic reworkings of the Commedia . Blake's decidedly Dionysian ( and quite un - Catholic ) take on the dancing ...
... artists who have contributed to it is piously inclined to weed out the sterpi eretici from the profusion of theological fantasies reaching for the Sun in the Commedia . The fantasies of orthodoxy at work throughout the poem — the ...
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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 |