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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... faith in the volume alive through many a rough patch . And for my three fratelli , Domenico Racco , Julian Roberts , and John Curtin , a pledge : I shall meet you at Rocca Maggiore before the end of the road . At the anagogic level I ...
... Faith ? It is just such an experience that Dante claims for himself as he nakedly transgresses all religious bounds , passing strangely beyond belief and disbelief , in the final moment of his regressus ad Deum . The usual rendering of ...
... faith beyond the doctri- nal limits of the Catholic Church , and why his theological impulse to expand his belief is aesthetically important for the Commedia . One of his key words for faith , credenza , is especially pertinent to this ...
... faith bear upon all traditional systems of belief , includ- ing the Roman Catholicism of his youth and the Roman philosophy of his political heyday and early exile . Sustained by an anagogic fantasy of his own orthodoxy , he is ...
... Faith among " the lost peo- ple " [ la perduta gente ] ( Inf . 3.3 ) ? How does the obscenity of their trans- formations contribute to the making of Dante's credenza ? The five essays in part 2 all deal with the obscenity of infernal ...
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 |