In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines
literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological
reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely,
Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some
of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond
suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an
obsession with transgression beneath Dante's overt suppression of
it, there is another and a prior sense in which transgression
emerges as Dante's essential and ultimate gesture. His work as a
poet culminates in the Paradiso in a transcendence of language
towards a purely ineffable, mystical experience beyond verbal
expression. Yet Dante conveys this experience, nevertheless, in and
through language and specifically through the transgression of
language, violating its normally representational and referential
functions. Paradiso's 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.
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