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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... mystical record by a long shot . He has risen seven heavens higher , no less . He has made it all the way to the top . As soon as he enters the Empyrean from the Primum Mobile , he experiences a supernatural increase in his range of ...
... mystical theologian had ever seen or known on the far side of unknowing . Now that would be something to sing about , some- thing truly over the top , especially for a poet definitely not in holy orders who strategically addressed the ...
... mystical altitude or latitude , measures which might help us to determine where we're heading , but a disorienting new " beyonditude , ” in which ancient philosophical dualisms ( like Pythagoras's opposition of Limit and Unlimited ) and ...
... mystical experiences recorded in the Bible ? Its significance must exceed the meaning of St. Paul's being “ caught up , " for instance , since the Apostle only experienced the mysteries of the third heaven . Reflecting on Dante's ...
... mystical status of an inviolable agent of universal religious and political reform under the law - bound régime of a Divine Emperor . On a first reading , the Commedia may appear to be primarily an ago- nized apology for the politics of ...
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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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