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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... reveal the moral and psychosexual effects of their unorthodoxy . Part 3 ( Trasumanar ) fol- lows Dante's struggle " to pass beyond the human " by considering Pur- gatory and Paradise as controversial zones where the prevailing orthodoxy ...
... reveal the impact of the Commedia and The Cantos on filmmaking in the second half of the twentieth century . Implicit in ... reveals the " marginality " of his own orthodoxy . In the second essay , Ed King considers why the damnation of ...
... reveals how their now largely forgotten line of scholarship exerted a direct influ- ence on the aesthetic development of Ezra Pound and thereby contributed to the rupturing emergence of modernist poetics . Pound's Dante would cer ...
... reveals our yearning for death or " continuity " and our anguish over individual self - consciousness or " disconti- nuity . " 9. Aesthetic pleasure transcends the nostalgic fetishization of mater- nal space , which paradoxically ...
... reveals how impetuously it has shifted its tone and developed its tenets over the cen- turies . The contemporary ... reveal " to us that the most specula- tive theology of the Schools has been stamped with his own indubitable poetic ...
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 |