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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... effects of their unorthodoxy . Part 3 ( Trasumanar ) fol- lows Dante's struggle " to pass beyond the human " by considering Pur- gatory and Paradise as controversial zones where the prevailing orthodoxy of the Roman Church is both ...
... effect , another mapping ) of Dante's faith - frontier onto the erotically volatile border between taboo and trans- gression . As exuberantly charted by Georges Bataille in the most unortho- dox of modern French treatises on love , L ...
... effect is to distort the serious facts of ecclesiastical history , the Pre - Nicene period having been especially perilous for the faithful in the absence of a clear ( let alone a clearly universal or " catholic " ) conception of ...
... effect of Dante's rhetorical impeto here is to collapse the critical distinction between the allegory of the poets and the allegory of the theologians that he himself had drawn in the Convivio and reconsid- ered in the Epistle to ...
... effect the Arch - Pope triple - crowns her , and for a transgressive instant , as the glowing helix of his logos - trail floats around her head , she plays the fantastic role of papal successor the first female pontiff in a hith- erto ...
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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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