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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... become an issue of major concern among the earliest commentators on the poem . Dante studies takes its start , not surprisingly , from a defence of his orthodoxy . Reflecting on the outrageousness of his mission to recreate his church ...
... become beautiful , for then it simultaneously reveals our yearning for death or " continuity " and our anguish over ... becomes very “ undivine " compared with the ana- gogic comedy glossed in accordance with medieval theology . To some ...
... become keenly aware that the time - hallowed beliefs at the core of its teachings were not quite as stable or complete or uni- fied or well defined as the Constantinian concepts of orthodoxia ( right belief ) and its optimistic synonym ...
... becomes little more than a sophistic exercise designed to stretch the suspension of disbelief on the poetic side to its aesthetic limits , and to extend the trajectory of belief on the theological side beyond its ecclesi- astical limits ...
... becomes a different thing in poetry . " ' 39 What it has become through poetic transmutation is a vital component of something permanently public , a grand artistic design , a self - contained aesthetic unity accessible to anyone who ...
Contenido
1 | |
63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |