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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... sexual- ity ( man / sodomite ) . According to Carolynn Lund - Mead , Dante auda- ciously transgresses the gender divide in the Francesca episode by identifying himself with Virgil's Dido . Francesca's corresponding inver- sion of ...
... sexual diver- sity links Statius's lecture on what goes on in the human womb to the pur- gation of same - sex lovers on the Cornice of the Lustful and to the homoerotic replay of the Francesca episode in the Heaven of Venus . What would ...
... sexual 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 ...
... sexual and political transgressions . Speaking in his own defence , the poet proudly traces his unorthodox influence along the line of eccentric Dante scholars to the infamous “ Danteum , " a modernist building planned ( but never ...
... sexuality . Credit is due them collectively for ask- ing impertinent questions about the orthodoxy of Dante's treatment of everyone from Brunetto and Mohammed in Hell to Cunizza and Ripheus in Heaven . I have been blessed with ...
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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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