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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... literally means . How carefully and covertly he has trained us through nearly a hundred cantos of unsurpassable rhetorical virtuosity to read the temporary " failure " of his words as a cue for the imminent triumph of speech over ...
... literally and figuratively by considering how the resonance of the Sacred Poem " carries across " the language barrier between Italian and English and across the centuries between the medieval and modern periods . Just as the spirits in ...
... literally , " more living " -than they were before the flood . The humble orto may not yet be a paradiso , but it has been vigorously improved in a paradisial direction . Bonaventure's Franciscan vision of how a strong reactionary ...
... literally from the pyres of the heretics and morally from the preaching of their inquisitors . As the recent condemnation of same - sex marriage by Pope John Paul II ( who has been joined by authorities from other Chris- tian ...
... literally because it was a truthful " allegory of the theologians , " after all , and not a false " allegory of the poets . " 20 The theologian whose allegories of orthodoxy most deeply influenced the inquisitorial mission of the ...
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 |