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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... centuries of commentary in which the teachings of the Church have been read into the poem at every turn , why do we still feel the need for “ retheologizing ” Dante at the oltraggio moment ? Is it because we feel the frustrating failure ...
... century . Implicit in Dante's luminous jour- ney through Paradise is an aesthetic adaptation to the divine delight in spilling over or bursting through all measures of beauty and wisdom . In light of this , part 6 ( Trasmodar ) ...
... century to consider the intimate connection between two modern versions of unorthodoxy : aesthetic and political . Looking back to a small group of eccentric Dantists from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who wrote against ...
... century when the poet's first illuminators set out to render and rival his visions picto- rially . Thus , in its dialectical structure , the volume implicitly maps the con- tested border between orthodoxy and unorthodoxy onto the ...
... her heavenly beauty is neither the destructive power cursed by misogynist preachers in the Middle Ages nor the savage force hailed by twentieth- century poets in their elegies on political rebellion . Neither INTRODUCTION 15.
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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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