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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... language ( at least tem- porarily ) breaks down , but immediate experience of the newness of life goes on and on . Since he is claiming for himself an experience not merely comparable to but miraculously identical with the Creator's ...
... language in utero ; and the moment of divine inspi- ration when his adult soul received the fantastic imprint of the poem in caelo . Paradise as mediated to Dante through Beatrice's desire is not a cool ascetic stillness but an ...
... Languages and Literatures at Western . While the name of the conference provided me with the main title for the volume , its Bataillean subtitle The Aesthetics of Transgression reflects the passionate interest of my students over the ...
... language , and authority fired up the zeal of Dominic's successors . After the establishment of the Papal Inquisition under Dominican con- trol in 1233 , the hunt for the Unorthodox was officially on , and not just locally , as it had ...
... language in a poetic style powerful enough to lure the faithful through the old discursive maze of post - Babel confusions . That very expansion , with its implicit appeal to a higher strain of orthodoxy than mortal ears have yet ...
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 |