Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of TransgressionJames L. Miller Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 22 apr. 2005 - 566 sidor 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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... circle was unbroken . For its hundredth and final meeting , the group opened outward to include participants in the Dante & the Unorthodox conference held at Western in April 1997. Many of the essays in this present volume were ...
... circle of the Trinity , I suggest in part 3 that trasumanar might also mean the “ carrying over of the human into the divine ” —a distinctively cosmopoetic as well as incarnational transgression of the pagan onto- logical divide between ...
... Circle . My subsequent reflections on Bataille as an interpretive guide to the sadistic fascinations of Lower Hell focus on the sacrificial image of exposed viscera , of insides brought outside . Why does Dante gaze so fixedly , so ...
... circle of our Dantean conviviality . On April 10-12 , 1997 , the Circolo marked the completion of its read- ing project with a conference , for which I suggested the title “ Dante & the Unorthodox . " Professor Thorp and I were the ...
... circles of the Stellatum but also , beyond and within these , highlighting their otherworldly symmetry through a wildly creative vio- lation of its rules , the comet trails of individual ingegno . CREDENCE What gives credence to Dante's ...
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Part IITrasmutar | 121 |
Part IIITrasumanar | 249 |
Part IVTraslatar | 327 |
Part VTralucere | 367 |
Part VITrasmodar | 489 |
Notes on Contributors | 531 |
Index | 535 |
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