Dante & the Unorthodox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante & the Unorthodox write by James Miller. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Dante & the Unorthodox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression
Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression write by . This book was released on . Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dante and Virgil
Dante and Virgil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante and Virgil write by Herbert Macartney Beatty. This book was released on 1905. Dante and Virgil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dante's Persons
Dante's Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dante's Persons write by Heather Webb. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Dante's Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's Persons explores the concept of personhood as it appears in Dante's Commedia and seeks out the constituent ethical modes that the poem presents as necessary for attaining a fullness of persona. The study suggests that Dante presents a vision of 'transhuman' potentiality in which the human person is, after death, fully integrated into co-presence with other individuals in a network of relations based on mutual recognition and interpersonal attention. The Commedia, Heather Webb argues, aims to depict and to actively construct a transmortal community in which the plenitude of each individual's person is realized in and through recognition of the personhood of other individuals who constitute that community, whether living or dead. Webb focuses on the strategies the Commedia employs to call us to collaborate in the mutual construction of persons. As we engage with the dead that inhabit its pages, we continue to maintain the personhood of those dead. Webb investigates Dante's implicit and explicit appeals to his readers to act in relation to the characters in his otherworlds as if they were persons. Moving through the various encounters of Purgatorio and Paradiso, this study documents the ways in which characters are presented as persone in development or in a state of plenitude through attention to the 'corporeal' modes of smiles, gazes, gestures, and postures. Dante's journey provides a model for the formation and maintenance of a network of personal attachments, attachments that, as constitutive of persona, are not superseded even in the presence of the direct vision of God.
Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy
Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy write by Christopher Kleinhenz. This book was released on 2020-02-01. Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions--historical, literary, religious, and ethical--that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult. Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a first-year seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.
