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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... eyes at the Divine Light : " Thenceforward my vision was greater / than speech can show , which fails at such a sight , / and memory yields to so great ... " So great a what ? What oltraggio could be so great that even its greatness ...
... eyes soon got used to the hyperbolic depth of field in the Tenth Heaven ( Par . 30.118-19 ) . To see the Beyond as the Blessed see it has long been a per- fectly predictable goal of Christian mystics approaching God along the via ...
... eyes , finally " imparadises " Dante's mind [ ' mparadisa la mia mente ] ( Par . 28.3 ) by expanding and enrapturing it with the prospect of a New Roman orthodoxy through which all faithful lovers , not just celibate lovers of the ...
... eyes . What they immediately reflect is the dynamic model of a new civilization , a new sacralizing interplay between taboo and transgression . To read allegory from the atheistic viewpoint of Bataille is inevitably to transgress the ...
... the Church Militant in the fourth century . In theory , orthodoxy ought to be a vision of God's Invincible Truth gloriously apparent to the eyes of all the faithful . It is certainly that in the Heaven INTRODUCTION 21.
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 |