AUTHOR(S):
Patrick Dillon
TITLE:
Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's "The Dawn in Erewhon"
DIVISION:
Humanities
DEPT/PROGRAM:
English
MENTOR(S):
Charles Bernstein
DOCUMENT TYPE:
Undergraduate Student Research
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COMMENTS:
Revised version, posted 10 December 2007.
ABSTRACT:
In "The Dawn in Erewhon", the concluding novella of Tatlin!, Guy Davenport explores the myth of Orpheus in the context of two storylines: Adriaan van Hovendaal, a thinly veiled version of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and an updated retelling of Samuel Butler's utopian novel Erewhon. Davenport tells the story in a disjunctive style and uses the Orpheus myth as a symbol to refer to a creative sensibility that has been lost in modern technological civilization but is recoverable through art.
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Patrick Dillon, "Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's "The Dawn in Erewhon"", 10 December 2007. CUREJ: College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal, University of Pennsylvania, http://repository.upenn.edu/curej/23
DATE POSTED: 28 June 2006
