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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... morally shameful sense dismisura which he associates with the pride of the Florentines whose new wealth has encouraged immoderation or “ lack of measure " in the old Aristotelian ethical sense ( Inf . 16.74 ) . From a moral standpoint ...
... moral and psychosexual 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 ...
... morality ( man / demon ) , and sexual- ity ( man / sodomite ) . According to Carolynn Lund - Mead , Dante auda- ciously ... moral theology , his murky association of anger with “ accidie . ” Is this merging of sins as idiosyncratic as it ...
... moral divide between the human and the demonic . Sacrilege is the rejection of this observance . In the fourth essay of part 2 , Mark Feltham and I consider the outra- geous nudity of the Damned as a sign of the desecration of the ...
... morality , transfigured Cunizza from a famous wanton into an amorous saint . In the first essay of part 5 , Bart Testa reflects on the " chasm " of cul- tural history separating Dante from three filmmakers - Michelangelo Antonioni ...
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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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