Dante & the Unorthodox : The Aesthetics of Transgression.
Title:
Dante & the Unorthodox : The Aesthetics of Transgression.
Author:
Miller, James.
ISBN:
9780889209275
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (577 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Retheologizing Dante -- Part I-Trapassar -- Dante's Limbo: At the Margins of Orthodoxy -- Saving Virgil -- Sacrificing Virgil -- Part II-Trasmutar -- Dido Alighieri: Gender Inversion in the Francesca Episode -- Fuming Accidie: The Sin of Dante's Gurglers -- Heresy and Politics in Inferno 10 -- Original Skin: Nudity and Obscenity in Dante's Inferno -- Anti-Dante: Bataille in the Ninth Bolgia -- Part III-Trasumanar -- Rainbow Bodies: The Erotics of Diversity in Dante's Catholicism -- Dante/Fante: Embryology in Purgatory and Paradise -- The Cyprian Redeemed: Venereal Influence in Paradiso -- Part IV-Traslatar -- "Dantescan Light": Ezra Pound and Eccentric Dante Scholars -- Ezra Pound in the Earthly Paradise -- Part V-Tralucere -- Dante and Cinema: Film across a Chasm -- "Moving Visual Thinking": Dante, Brakhage, and the Works of Energeia -- Driftworks, Pulseworks, Lightworks: The Letter to Dr. Henderson -- Part VI-Trasmodar -- Calling Dante: An Exhibition of Sculptures, Drawings, and Installations -- Curatorial Essay: Prophet of the Paragone -- Calling Dante: Notes on the Artists -- Calling Dante: A Portfolio of Words and Images -- Calling Dante: From Dante on the Steps of Immortality -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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