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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... final meeting , the group opened outward to include participants in the Dante & the Unorthodox conference held at Western in April 1997. Many of the essays in this present volume were germinated at that conference . Although the ...
... final vision . Through this word he impels us into a doctri- nally explosive moment , which he claims he experienced quite unexpectedly while directing his eyes at the Divine Light : " Thenceforward my vision was greater / than speech ...
... final experience , it must lie through his miraculous expression of a fan- tasy of self - authorizing orthodoxy projected through the unorthodox rev- elations of the Commedia . In contrast to Dante , St. Paul is quite reluctant to ...
... final moment of his regressus ad Deum . The usual rendering of oltraggio in English as " excess " conveys some- thing of the poet's anagogic leap into the otherness of the Trinity , though the translation inevitably conveys a hint of ...
... final canto . With so much failing him ( his memory , his speech , his very capacity to know ) at the culmination of his ascent , we may easily be tempted to perceive his out - of - bounds experience in the modern English sense of ...
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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 |