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
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781433108334
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: Did Demeter's mother know greek mythology?; title: The Acts of the Apostles; title: Sex and 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: The artist's salvation, and the natural man's destiny; title: "Four fingers and a thumb": sex, breeding, and love; title: The penis cannot make water lilies: God, nature, culture, and modernity; title: Conclusion: death and the phallus in The studhorse man.