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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... Hell and its inhabitants . In the first essay , Amilcare A. Iannucci explores a range of theological reactions to Dante's strikingly original treatment of Limbo ( from Latin limbus , meaning " margin " ) and shows how the poet's ...
... Hell to Cunizza and Ripheus in Heaven . I have been blessed with undergraduate students who have been " outraged " by Dante in every sense of the term . Their creative per- turbation in response to his idiosyncratic recreation of ...
... Hell : an ominous terminus ad quem if you happen to have been staring at the venomous blow - job with any degree of transgressive fascination . Michelangelo's relentless paragone results in a visual " sting operation , " a strategy of ...
... hell , he detheologized his own worst image of himself as a master - liar in the ironically truthful figure of Geryon . If any essay in the volume comes close to detheologizing Dante , it is my " acephalic " reading of Mohammed's wound ...
... hell if he makes same - sex marriage legal in Canada , a Roman Catholic bishop from Alberta warned yesterday ... The Vatican's instructions to Catholic politicians on same - sex marriages , being released today , state : ' When ...
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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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