Dante and the sense of transgression : the trespass of the sign /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franke, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Series:New directions in religion and literature
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Dantes Implication in the Transgressiveness He Condemns
  • pt. 1 Language and Beyond
  • 2. Linguistic Turn of Transgression in the Paradiso
  • 3. At the Limits of Language or Reading Dante through Blanchot
  • 4. Step/Not Beyond
  • 5. Neuter - Nothing Except Nuance
  • 6. Forgetting and the Limits of Experience - Letargo and the Argo
  • 7. Speech - The Vision that is Non-Vision
  • 8. Writing - The `Essential Experience
  • 9. Gaze of Orpheus
  • 10. Beatrice and Eurydice
  • 11. Blanchots Dark Gaze and the Experience of Literature as Transgression
  • 12. Negative Theology and the Space of Literature - Order Beyond Order
  • pt. 2 Authority and Powerlessness (Kenosis)
  • 13. Necessary Transgression - Human versus Transcendent Authority
  • 14. Dante and the Popes
  • 15. Against the Emperor?
  • 16. Inevitable Transgression along a Horizontal Axis
  • 17. Heterodox Dante and Christianity
  • 18. Christianity: An Inherently Transgressive Religion?
  • pt. 3 Transgression and Transcendence
  • 19. Transgression and the Sacred in Bataille and Foucault
  • 20. Transgression as the Path to God - the Authority of Inner Experience
  • 21. Transcendence and the Sense of Transgression.