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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... body , I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body , I cannot tell : God knoweth ; ) such an one caught up to the third heaven , " he humbly recalls about him- self ( 2 Cor . 12 : 2 ) .3 Though this rapture is certainly recollected in ...
... body , I have contributed some observations about the Bataillean significance of the homoerotic shape - shifting in the Eighth Circle . My subsequent reflections on Bataille as an interpretive guide to the sadistic fascinations of Lower ...
... body of the triumphal vehicle a fox that seemed starved of all good nourishment ; but my lady , rebuking it for its foul offenses , turned it to such flight as its fleshless bones allowed . ] ( Purg . 32.118-23 ) The ease with which ...
... body . In the Sistine Chapel , however , the tail has metamor- phosed into a giant serpent comparable to the python - like Satan twist- ing around the tree in the temptation scene on the Sistine ceiling . Having gained its independence ...
... body two times around Minos , the spectator is deviously positioned as one of the Lustful bound for the Second Circle of Hell : an ominous terminus ad quem if you happen to have been staring at the venomous blow - job with any degree of ...
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Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |