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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... critically infu- riating " or even " blatantly heretical . " It would be so especially to a devout Catholic reader trying to understand the unorthodox genesis of the Com- media . Though the poet insists that the experience of oltraggio ...
... critical response to thirteenth - century scholastic decisions about the afterlife of noble pagans and unbaptized infants ironically reveals the " marginality " of his own orthodoxy . In the second essay , Ed King considers why the ...
... critical resistance to the cultural pressure of the poet's unprecedented expansion of orthodoxy as a horizon of worldwide social reform . Taking a cue from his representation of St. Dominic as a " mighty teacher " [ gran dottor ] ( Par ...
... Critical attention throughout the volume is accordingly focused on the poet's response to particular doctrines traditionally and currently condemned by the vigilant weeders of the Catholic Garden . The Platonic belief in ensouled star ...
... critical result is a superimposing ( in effect , another mapping ) of Dante's faith - frontier onto the erotically volatile border between taboo and trans- gression . As exuberantly charted by Georges Bataille in the most unortho- dox ...
Contenido
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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 |