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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... meaning something like " a state or condition discovered when we step out of bounds or cross over traditional limits . " The English cognate for oltraggio is “ outrage , ” a medieval borrowing from French where it still denotes the ...
... its true “ catholicism . ” In modern Italian , as in modern English , “ credenza ” has come to mean a side table where various foods are placed so that they may be sampled before being served . This is not Dante's meaning INTRODUCTION 5.
... meaning , of course , but it suggests an allegorical image for the Commedia by recalling the ban- queting table of the Convivio ( 1.1.10–13 ) where he spread out all his philo- sophical knowledge for the reader to sample . In the Sacred ...
... meaning of St. Paul's being “ caught up , " for instance , since the Apostle only experienced the mysteries of the third heaven . Reflecting on Dante's Ovidian as well as Bernardian fascination with the visionary presence of “ our image ...
... meaning and aesthetic form to its otherwise senseless and ugly violence . Bataille's illustrious failure to preserve the sacred aura of érotisme à coeur from profane modernism through a politi- cal analysis of violence haunts ...
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 |