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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... heaven , " he humbly recalls about him- self ( 2 Cor . 12 : 2 ) .3 Though this rapture is certainly recollected in the oltrag- gio moment , Dante has broken the Apostle's mystical record by a long shot . He has risen seven heavens ...
... Heaven of the Wise for clear terms or clever arguments that can furnish us with conclusive understandings of his vision . Rather , he demands a startling reinvention of true Belief , of orthodoxy at its source , before the Church down ...
... heaven . Reflecting on Dante's Ovidian as well as Bernardian fascination with the visionary presence of “ our image ” [ la nostra effige ] ( Par . 33.131 ) in the sec- ond circle of the Trinity , I suggest in part 3 that trasumanar ...
... Heaven of Venus . What would St. Paul have made of Dante's distinctly un - Pauline encounter with the flaming soul of Charles Martel ? Jennifer Fraser's essay on the poetics of the Dantean body also takes off for Paradise from the womb ...
... heaven . While Brakhage's exper- imental film runs for six intensely modernist minutes , Elder's cycle The Book of All the Dead expands its pulsating flow of images over more than forty mesmerizing postmodern hours - a creative excess ...
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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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