{"id":569,"date":"2014-08-15T11:02:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=569"},"modified":"2017-09-09T03:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T08:27:27","slug":"dante-and-the-sense-of-transgression-%e2%80%9cthe-tresspass-of-the-sign%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/dante-and-the-sense-of-transgression-%e2%80%9cthe-tresspass-of-the-sign%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHardcover edition:\u00a0Continuum:\u00a0 New Directions in Religion and Literature Series<\/a>
\nISBN: 9781441160423\u00a0 (paperback)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9781441136916 (hardcover) 200 pages
\nIn\u00a0Dante and the Sense of Transgression<\/em>, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante\u2019s poetic vision. \u00a0Conversely, Dante\u2019s medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory.
\nBeyond suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an obsession with transgression beneath Dante\u2019s overt suppression of it, there is another and a prior sense in which transgression emerges as Dante\u2019s essential and ultimate gesture.\u00a0 His work as a poet culminates in the\u00a0Paradiso<\/em> in a transcendence of language towards a purely ineffable, mystical experience beyond verbal expression.\u00a0 Yet Dante conveys this experience, nevertheless, in and through language and specifically through the\u00a0transgression<\/em> of language, violating its normally representational and referential functions. \u00a0Paradiso<\/em>\u2019s dramatic sky-scapes and unparalleled textual performances stage a deconstruction of the sign that is analyzed philosophically in the light of Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida, Barthes, and Bataille, as transgressing and transfiguring the very sense of sense.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2018Written in elegant and astonishingly readable prose, William Franke\u2019s volume gives a lucid portrait of a fundamental question that lies at the heart of Dante\u2019s\u00a0Divine Comedy <\/em>and has resurfaced in contemporary French philosophical reflection: poetic theology as a radical, transgressive mode of knowledge.\u00a0 In mapping the ground of this fascinating debate, William Franke places Dante at the boundaries of thought and recovers the timeliness of his spiritual vision.\u00a0 This book is a must-read for historians of religion, Dante scholars, literary critics, and adepts of cultural studies.\u2019\u00a0 \u2013 Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University, USA<\/p>\n

\u201cCan language meaningfully point us to the divine? Is it possible for us to transcend our humanity to touch the mystery which surrounds it? How might the idolatrous projections of our ego be transgressed? These are just some of the questions provoked by William Franke’s scintillating book. By bringing Dante’s Paradiso and French Theory into mutually illuminating dialogue, Franke invites his readers to explore the outer limits of sense and meaning, and to consider seriously the theological implications of the unknowing at the heart of literary expression. His reflections will spark the interest not only of Dante scholars, theologians and literary theorists, but of anyone interested in probing the connections between literature and theology.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame, USA<\/span><\/p>\n

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George Corbett, Speculum<\/em> 89\/4 (2014): 1139-40<\/a><\/p>\n

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