Dimensions of Erewhon: The Modern Orpheus in Guy Davenport's "The Dawn in Erewhon"

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Charles Bernstein
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Charles
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Guy Davenport
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Orpheus
Tatlin
Dawn in Erewhon
Erewhon
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luditism
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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.

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2007-12-10
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Revised version, posted 10 December 2007.
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