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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... vision . Through this word he impels us into a doctri- nally explosive moment , which he claims he experienced quite unexpectedly while directing his eyes at the Divine Light : " Thenceforward my vision was greater / than speech can ...
... vision along with a staggering intensification of his visual acuity , and we are meant to inter- pret these perceptual signs as proof that his mystical experience is already far greater than its Pauline precedent . He assures us matter ...
... vision . Rather , he demands a startling reinvention of true Belief , of orthodoxy at its source , before the Church down below can even begin to assess his unorthodox revelation about the genesis of the poem up above . What we yearn ...
... vision of modern Italian life . Brakhage's The Dante Quar- tet , by contrast , moves swiftly through hellish chaos and purgatorial fire towards a brief electrifying glimpse of heaven . While Brakhage's exper- imental film runs for six ...
... vision of excess , beauty fuses binaries into paradox . 4. A work is beautiful if it generates a backward - forward ... visions of beauty arise from the spectacle of primordial physical agony . 8. Suffering must be witnessed to become ...
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 |