Dante & the unorthodox [[electronic resource] ] : the aesthetics of transgression / / edited by James Miller

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (577 p.)
• Disciplina: 851/.1
• Soggetto topico: Christianity in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MillerJames L. <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Retheologizing Dante; Part I-Trapassar; Part II-Trasmutar; Part III-Trasumanar; Part IV-Traslatar; Part V-Tralucere; Part VI-Trasmodar; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 fam
• Altri titoli varianti: Dante and the unorthodox
• Titolo autorizzato: Dante & the unorthodox
• ISBN: 1-280-28076-X; 9786610280766; 0-88920-927-8; 1-4175-9972-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910449911503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II