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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... Orthodoxy Amilcare A. Iannucci Saving Virgil Ed King Sacrificing Virgil Mira Gerhard PART II — Trasmutar ix 1 63 83 107 Dido Alighieri : Gender Inversion in the Francesca Episode Carolynn Lund - Mead 121 Fuming Accidie : The Sin of ...
... orthodoxy projected through the unorthodox rev- elations of the Commedia . In contrast to Dante , St. Paul is quite reluctant to entertain such a fan- tasy . " I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago , ( whether in the body , I ...
... orthodoxy at its source , before the Church down below can even begin to assess his unorthodox revelation about the genesis of the poem up above . What we yearn for at the speculatively expansive moment of oltraggio is not a new series ...
... orthodoxy , he is determined to make belief through make- believe . It is a potentially heretical strategy , and his transgressive reliance on the imagination as well as the intellect to far credenza in the reader will become an issue ...
... orthodoxy . In the second essay , Ed King considers why the damnation of Virgil continues to provoke debate over his posthumous potential to be saved , a controversial issue which has long perplexed readers concerned with the efficacy ...
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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 |