Disenchanted modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse man
Subtitle: biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading
By: Francis Zichy.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433108334
Subjects: Kroetsch, Robert, -- 1927-; Gender identity in literature; Masculinity in literature; Postmodernism (Literature) -- Canada
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity and disenchantment; title: Contexts and critics; title: Who gave Hazard Lepage his first horse? or, answering questions with questions; title: Who is Demeter Proudfoot? Eugenics, sterilization, and contraception; title: Naming the studhorse man himself; title: Demeter's mother know greek mythology?; title: Acts of the Apostles; title: Gender in The studhorse man; title: Being (not so) clearly male in the studhorse man; title: Men in love, part I; title: Men in love, part II: obsession as liberation; title: Smoking a peace pipe with the poundkeeper; title: Artist's salvation, and the natural man's destiny; title: Fingers and a thumb: sex, breeding, and love; title: Penis cannot make water lilies: God, nature, culture, and modernity; title: Conclusion: death and the phallus in The studhorse man.