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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... pagan onto- logical divide between humanity and divinity . Part 4 ( Traslatar ) “ translates ” Dante both literally ... pagans and unbaptized infants ironically reveals the " marginality " of his own orthodoxy . In the second essay , Ed ...
... pagan Epicureanism , led to the heresy of mortalism — a rejection of the fundamental doctrine of the immortality of the human soul . In the third essay of part 2 , Guido Pugliese explores Dante's theological and political reaction to ...
... pagan love poem is recalled as an influence on the open form poetics of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson . By medi- ating Dante to Brakhage through Pound , these two mid - century Amer- ican poets also passed on their dynamic ...
... pagan tradition that often cropped up as heresies in the harvest of Christian apology . While certain recondite heresies such as the Photinian denial of the divine origin of Christ conspicuously threat- ened the Trinitarian foundations ...
... pagans , witches , blasphemers , infidels , schismatics , false prophets , excom- municated rebels , and philosophical freethinkers : all the dangerous sorts of people whose opposition to prevailing systems of knowledge , sexual- ity ...
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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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Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression James Miller Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2006 |