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?Lizard, the Greeks Called It?: Guy Davenport and the Uranian Present

Authors: Kaylor Michael M.

Year: 2005

Type of publication: článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Millennium

Publisher name: Univerzita Pardubice

Place: Pardubice

Page from-to: 39-56

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	není	není
eng	?Lizard, the Greeks Called It?: Guy Davenport and the Uranian Present	The Uranian continuum, which began in 1858, is still recognisable today in the works of a number of contemporary authors, such as Guy Davenport. Against the predatory banality of novels like Alan Hollinghurst?s ?Swimming-Pool Library? ? representative of ?acclaimed? homoerotic and pederastic writing since 1967 ? Davenport?s fictions like ?The Jules Verne Steam Balloon? construct a Danish Arcadia where boys woo each other with lines from Rimbaud and Greek poetry, for the ?Grundtviggers? have a precocity nurtured by Hugo Tvemunding, an assistant Classics master and a staunch apologist for ?ancient Greek sentimental loyalties?. The result is a textual, pederastic Arcadia, a Fourierist world which is infused with an aesthetic, erotic playfulness.	Uranian, Guy Davenport, Alan Hollinghurst, Jules Verne Steam Balloon, pederasty, eroticism

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