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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... reader to sample . In the Sacred Poem his beliefs expand beyond the limited classical fare on his earlier philosoph- ical menu . His banquet is now spread out upon “ the table of love ” [ la mensa d'amor ] ( Purg . 13.27 ) , a credenza ...
... readers concerned with the efficacy of prayer . Can the good will of readers who pray for Virgil's salvation move Heaven to har- row his lost soul , to carry it over the INTRODUCTION 7.
... readers of the Commedia as several essays in this volume attest — because it contrasts so sharply with Dante's ... reading , the Commedia may appear to be primarily an ago- nized apology for the politics of taboo . Virgil himself ...
... reading of the Com- media as a site of spectacular agony . On the three lower levels of reading- the anagogic level simply disappears from a Bataillean analysis — a strong sense of the Sacred is still conveyed to us as witnesses of ...
... readers he requires us to be , then the self - inquisitorial project of the Com- media becomes little more than a sophistic exercise designed to stretch the suspension of disbelief on the poetic side to its aesthetic limits , and to ...
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 |