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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... tion by dispensing with aesthetic principles metaphysically dependent on God . In their place emerges a set of radically humanistic principles upon which I base my understanding of the aesthetics of transgression : 1. Excess is ...
... irriga- tion of the orto catolico . Not even the bleak ironies of the Reformation , which were to expose the doctrinal and political cracks in the Roman Raphael , Disputa ( detail ) , Stanza della Segnatura. 28 INTRODUCTION.
... tion provoked by a rigorous rationalism that once got even the great Dominicans at the University of Paris in trouble with the guardians of orthodoxy . Despite his humble protestation that his sole aim is to see " St. Peter's gate ...
... tion of the form of the text and critical detachment from the beliefs of the author . None of these ways is taken up in this volume . Our various approaches to Dante all start from the assumption that Belief and Lit- erature are both at ...
... tion feels like high drama . The intellectual equivalent of a chivalric duel , it fills him with keen suspense despite the foregone conclusions of the scholastic arguments with which he anxiously “ arms " himself [ così m'ar- mava io d ...
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 |