Disenchanted modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The studhorse man biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading /

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Main Author: Zichy, Francis, 1946-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.