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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... traditional limits . " The English cognate for oltraggio is “ outrage , ” a medieval borrowing from French where it still denotes the socially suspicious condition of being extravagant , outlandish , exaggerated , outré . To English ...
... traditional theological distinctions ( like Anselm's necessary versus contingent existence ) are left far behind . After nearly seven centuries of commentary in which the teachings of the Church have been read into the poem at every ...
... traditional systems of belief , includ- ing the Roman Catholicism of his youth and the Roman philosophy of his political heyday and early exile . Sustained by an anagogic fantasy of his own orthodoxy , he is determined to make belief ...
... tradition that often cropped up as heresies in the harvest of Christian apology . While certain recondite heresies ... tradition of critical and artistic reworkings of the Commedia . Blake's decidedly Dionysian ( and quite un - Catholic ) ...
... traditional fourfold interpreta- tion by dispensing with aesthetic principles metaphysically dependent on God . In their place emerges a set of radically humanistic principles upon which I base my understanding of the aesthetics 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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