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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... things - that it trumpets the defeat of all his theological attempts at definition and suspends him in a rhetorical hush on the far side of hyperbole . With oltraggio he struggles nevertheless to express the unbounded- ness of his final ...
... thing truly over the top , especially for a poet definitely not in holy orders who strategically addressed the laity as ... things , including his own words , a clue to the significance of oltraggio might be found by looking back at its ...
... things , including its own repressive laws . Transgression , in turn , requires taboo to give ritual meaning and aesthetic form to its otherwise senseless and ugly violence . Bataille's illustrious failure to preserve the sacred aura of ...
... thing , a scandalous sight on a grandiose patriarchal fig- ure entrusted with the enforcement of divine taboo . If Vasari is to be believed , Michelangelo modeled the grimacing fea- tures of Minos on those of Pope Paul II's Master of ...
... things unseen . A tall order indeed . As the first clear articulation of Dante's doctrinal goal , this promise sounds touchingly naive - like the pious plan of an arrogant layman already out of his theological depth . But as its ...
Contenido
1 | |
63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |