Dante & the Unorthodox

The Aesthetics of Transgression
Herausgeber: Miller, James

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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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780889204577
• ISBN-10: 0889204578
• Artikelnr.: 42307813

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of
Transgression, edited by James Miller
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Retheologizing Dante James Miller
PART I: Trapassar
Dante's Limbo: At the Margins of Orthodoxy Amilcare A. Iannucci
Saving Virgil Ed King
Sacrificing Virgil Mira Gerhard
PART II: Trasmutar
Dido Alighieri: Gender Inversion in the Francesca Episode Carolynn
Lund-Mead
Fuming Accidie: The Sin of Dante's Gurglers John Thorp
Heresy and Politics in Inferno Guido Pugliese
Original Skin: Nudity and Obscenity in Dante's Inferno Mark Feltham and
James Miller
Anti-Dante: Bataille in the Ninth Bolgia James Miller
Part III: Trasumanar
Rainbow Bodies: The Erotics of Diversity in Dante's Catholicism James
Miller
Dante/Fante: Embryology in Purgatory and Paradise Jennifer Fraser
The Cyprian Redeemed: Venereal Influence in Paradiso Bonnie MacLachlan
PART IV: Traslatar
"Dantescan Light": Ezra and Eccentric Dante Scholars Leon Surette
Ezra Pound in the Earthly Paradise Matthew Reynolds
PART V: Tralucere
Dante and Cinema: Film across a Chasm Bart Testa
"Moving Visual Thinking": Dante, Brakhage, and the Works of Energeia R.
Bruce Elder
Driftworks, Pulseworks, Lightworks: The Letter to Dr. Henderson R. Bruce
Elder
PART VI: Trasmodar
Calling Dante: An Exhibition of Sculptures, Drawings, and Installations
Andrew Pawlowski and Zbigniew Pospieszynski
Curatorial Essay: Prophet of the Paragone James Miller
Calling Dante: Notes on the Artists James Miller
Calling Dante: A Portfolio of Words and Images Andrew Pawlowski and
Zbigniew Pospieszynski
Calling Dante: From Dante on the Steps of Immortality Andrew Pawlowski
Notes on Contributors
Index
Notes on Contributors
R. Bruce Elder is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, critic, and
professor of film studies in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University
in Toronto. Retrospectives of his work have been mounted by the Art Gallery
of Ontario (Toronto), Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal), Senzatitolo
(Trento, Italy) and Anthology Film Archives (New York). He is the author of
Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture (1989), A Body
of Vision: The Image of the Body in Recent Film and Poetry (1997), and The
Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude
Stein and Charles Olson (1998).
Mark Feltham studied Dante and Bataille with James Miller in 1996-97 and
completed his PhD in English at The University of Western Ontario in 2004.
He specializes in James Joyce, with particular focus on editorial theory,
electronic text theory, and the history of the book. He currently teaches
English and writing at Western.
Jennifer Fraser completed her doctoral dissertation on Dante and Joyce at
the University of Toronto in 1997. An instructor for the Literary Studies
program at the University of Toronto in 2001-02, she has published articles
in the James Joyce Quarterly and European Joyce Studies. Her book Rite of
Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce was published by the
University Press of Florida in 2002.
Mira Gerhard graduated with a BA in classics from Brock University in 1994.
She studied Dante's Commedia with James Miller in 1996-97 at The University
of Western Ontario, from which she graduated with an MA in classics in
1998. She continued her studies of Dante, Virgil, and the classical
tradition at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto
in 1998-99.
Amilcare A. Iannucci was director of the Canadian Academic Centre in Italy
from 1981 to 1983 and chair of the Department of Italian Studies at the
University of Toronto from 1984 to 1988. He is currently director of the
University of Toronto Humanities Centre in University College. He is the
author of Forma ed evento nella 'Divina Commedia' (1984) and of numerous
articles on subjects ranging from Petrarch to Marshall McLuhan. Cofounder
of the journal Quaderni d'italianistica, he is also the editor of Dante e
la 'bella scola' della poesia: autorità e sfida poetica (1993), Dante:
Contemporary Perspectives (1997), and Dante, Cinema, and Television (2004).
An associate editor of The Dante Encyclopedia (2000), he has also produced
an educational video series on The Divine Comedy.
Ed King earned his honorary TS (a transgressive T-Shirt bearing the
glowering face of the Poet) after completing all three courses in James
Miller's 1995-96 Dante cycle. He went on to graduate from The University of
Western Ontario with a BA in political science and comparative literature
in 1998 and an MA in political science in 1999. His Master's thesis was on
economic rhetoric in Machiavelli's The Prince. In 2004 he graduated with a
PhD in political science from the University of California at Berkeley and
joined the faculty in the Department of Political Science at Concordia
University in Montreal. His main research interests include economic
rhetoric and the effect of the imagination on political choices.
Carolynn Lund-Mead is a Toronto-based independent scholar whose
publications include "Notes on Androgyny and the Commedia" in Lectura
Dantis (1992) and "Dante and Androgyny" in Dante: Contemporary Perspectives
(1997). Her doctoral dissertation on the relationship of fathers and sons
in Virgil, Dante, and Milton reflects her strong interest in
intertexuality, as does her present research for a project on Dante's
biblical allusions in collaboration with Amilcare A. Iannucci.
Bonnie MacLachlan is an associate professor in the Department of Classical
Studies at The University of Western Ontario. She is co-editor of Harmonia
Mundi: Music and Philosophy in Ancient Greece (1991) and author of The Age
of Grace: Charis in Early Greek Poetry (1993). Her articles include "Sacred
Prostitution and Aphrodite" (1992), "Personal Poetry" (1997), "The
Ungendering of Aphrodite" (2002), and "The Mindful Muse" (2002). Her main
research interests include ancient Greek and Roman religion, women in
antiquity, ancient music, and the lyric poets Alcaeus, Sappho, Ibycus,
Anacreon, and Corinna.
James Miller is Faculty of Arts Professor at the University of Western
Ontario and founding director of the Pride Library (www.uwo.ca/pridelib).
He is the author of Measures of Wisdom: The Cosmic Dance in Classical and
Christian Antiquity (1986) and the editor of Fluid Exchanges: Artists and
Critics in the AIDS Crisis (1992). His cycle of Dante courses for the
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures provides undergraduates with
the rare opportunity to study the entire Dantean corpus over a period of
two years. His next project is a study of gay readings/readers of the
Commedia from Oscar Wilde to Derek Jarman.
Andrew Pawlowski (MD 1963; MD 1979) established himself in private practice
as a dermatologist in Toronto and joined the University of Toronto Medical
Faculty in 1983. After teaching himself how to sculpt, he served as the
president of the Sculptors Society of Canada from 1992 to 1994. Besides
numerous articles in medical journals, his publications include studies of
the Polish-Canadian art scene and a cultural history of the Polish
community in Toronto, The Saga of Roncesvalles (1993). Since his retirement
from medical practice, he has written two novels set in the Middle Ages:
Pochylony nad Lokietkiem ("Leaning over Lokietek," published in 2004)
concerning a Polish king in Dante's time; and Zatrzymac cien Boga ("To Stop
the Shadow of God," forthcoming) on St. Bernard's role in the Second
Crusade. Photographs of his sculptures serve as illustrations for his
books.
Zbigniew Pospieszynski studied painting and printmaking at the Warsaw
Academy of Fine Art, graduating with an MA in 1978. After immigrating to
Canada in 1987, he has been active both as an artist and as a curator in
the Toronto area. In April of 2004, he mounted a successful exhibition of
his work under the auspices of the Roam Contemporary Gallery in New York
City. He is currently director of the Peak Gallery in Toronto.
Guido Pugliese (PhD, 1974) teaches Italian literature and language at the
University of Toronto at Mississauga. He has lectured on Dante, Boccaccio,
Goldoni, Conti, Leopardi, Manzoni, and Verga, and has published articles on
most of these authors. His scholarly interests extend to Italian theatre
and questions of pedagogy. He has edited the previously unpublished
correspondence of Pietro Ercole Gherardi to Muratori (1982) and a
collection of papers entitled Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century
Italian Novel (1989).
Matthew Reynolds is The Times Lecturer in English at Oxford University and
a Fellow of St. Anne's College. His book on Victorian poetry, The Realms of
Verse, was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. He is co-editor,
with David Forgacs, of Manzoni's novel The Betrothed (Dent, 1997) and, with
Eric Griffiths, of the anthology Dante in English (Penguin, 2005). His next
book will be A Rhetoric of Translation.
Leon Surette (PhD, Toronto) is a professor emeritus in the Department of
English at the University of Western Ontario where he has taught courses in
modern British literature, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, James Joyce,
William Golding, literature and philosophy, and literary theory. He is the
author of A Light from Eleusis: A Study of Ezra Pound's Cantos (1979), The
Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and the Occult
(1993), and Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism
(1999). He is co-editor of Literary Modernism and the Occult Tradition
(1996) and I Cease Not to Yowl: Ezra Pound's Letters to Olivia Agresti
(1998).
Bart Testa teaches film studies and semiotics as senior lecturer in the
Cinema Studies Program at Innis College, University of Toronto. He is the
author of Spirit in the Landscape (1989), Richard Kerr: Overlapping Entries
(1994), and Back and Forth: Early Cinema and the Avant-Garde (1992). His
numerous articles on cinema include "An Axiomatic Cinema: The Films of
Michael Snow" (1995), "The Double-Twist Allegory: Denys Arcand's Jesus of
Montreal" (1995), and "Seeing with Experimental Eyes: Stan Brakhage's The
Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes" (1999). He has served as books editor of
the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and has long been a regular
contributor to The Globe and Mail.
John Thorp THORP studied philosophy at Trent University in Canada and at
Magdalen College, Oxford. He taught for the first half of his career at the
University of Ottawa, and now teaches at The University of Western Ontario
in London. He is the author of Free Will: A Defence against
Neurophysiological Determinism (1980) and of numerous articles, including
"Aristotle on Probabilistic Reasoning" (1994), "Aristotle's Rehabilitation
of Rhetoric" (1993), and "Aristotle's Horror Vacui"(1990). His particular
field of research is ancient thought, especially the thought of Aristotle.
He is past president of the Canadian Philosophical Association.