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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... turn on the literal level of the manuscript has been the exuberantly progressive team at Wilfrid Laurier University Press : direc- tor Brian Henderson ; acquisitions editor Jacqueline Larson ; copy editor Beth McAuley ; website and ...
... the Church have been read into the poem at every turn , why do we still feel the need for “ retheologizing ” Dante at the oltraggio moment ? Is it because we feel the frustrating failure of theological discourse itself 4 INTRODUCTION.
... turn to any Catholic author- ity in the Heaven of the Wise for clear terms or clever arguments that can furnish us with conclusive understandings of his vision . Rather , he demands a startling reinvention of true Belief , of orthodoxy ...
... turn that distinction into a dichotomy . One such tendency , tra- ditionally associated with pagan Epicureanism , led to the heresy of mortalism — a rejection of the fundamental doctrine of the immortality of the human soul . In the ...
... turn , interprets the inwardness of Brakhage's film as a sign of his aesthetic desire to release energeia back into the world through the capacity of film as an art of moving pictures to imi- tate the dynamics of visual thinking . Part ...
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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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