Disenchanted modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The studhorse man [electronic resource] : biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading / Francis Zichy.
By: Zichy, Francis.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: New York : Peter Lang, c2010Description: vi, 247 p.Subject(s): Kroetsch, Robert, 1927-2011 | Gender identity in literature | Masculinity in literature | Postmodernism (Literature) -- CanadaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 818/.5409 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernity and disenchantment -- Contexts and critics -- Who gave Hazard Lepage his first horse? or, answering questions with questions -- Who is Demeter Proudfoot? eugenics, sterilization, and contraception -- Naming "the studhorse man himself" -- Did Demeter's mother know greek mythology? -- The Acts of the Apostles -- Sex and gender in The studhorse man -- Being not so clearly male in The studhorse man -- "Men in love", part I -- "Men in love", part II: obsession as liberation -- Smoking a peace pipe with the poundkeeper -- The artist's salvation, and the natural man's destiny -- "Four fingers and a thumb": sex, breeding, and love -- The penis cannot make water lilies: God, nature, culture, and modernity -- Conclusion: death and the phallus in The studhorse man.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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