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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... move since his harmonious . encounter with Aquinas in the Heaven of the Sun triumphantly identi- fies his own dubious orthodoxy with the Angelic Doctor's . Or does this identification work in reverse ? Does Dante's miraculous presence ...
... move that Dante himself might well have appreciated . As if any further visual evidence of Dante's orthodoxy were needed , Raphael places the poet directly in front of a large white marble block , which appears to be the foundation ...
... move his heart and renew his world , the first Theological Virtue appears in the form of a snow - white maiden step- ping towards him from the right wheel of the chariot of the Church where she has been dancing with her sisters Hope and ...
... move to essentialize poetic form . We should not be surprised then to discover that her detheologiz- ing regressus leads ad Dantem rather than ad Deum . Suspicious of the alle- gorical veil as a concealing artifice , she lifts it up to ...
... moves the saints and the other stars is supracosmic in origin , the com- bined radiance of their dance has transhumanized them beyond myth into the visible reality of a dynamic social force . That force , simultaneously amorous and ...
Contenido
1 | |
63 | |
Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |