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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... textual impetus of orthodoxy to define and tar- get its opponents , as Dante's Bonaventure unsentimentally suggests , emerges painfully from their obstinate resistenze . Dante himself encourages the textual study of his political and ...
... textual , which is to say false , and therefore , even to a perfectly sane spectator , surpris- ingly believable . The fox has struck . The striking effect of Dante's rhetorical impeto here is to collapse the critical distinction ...
... textual expression of Dante's alta fantasia , its very reminiscences of the Commedia should make us aware ( and all the more skeptical ) of post - medieval Catholic transvaluations of the Sacred Poem and its papally exonerated author ...
... textual test of his faith along with the extraordinary ritual con- texts - baptism in Lethe , confession in Eden , catechism in Gemini , communion in the Rose - where his faithfulness to the Truth can be demonstrated to the truly ...
... textual auto - da - fé was a symbolic incineration of the poet himself , as if his untimely death from malaria in 1321 was all that prevented the author- ities from sending him to the stake after they had realized the full extent of his ...
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 |