Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch’s the Studhorse Man: Biology and Culture; Sex and Gender; Eugenics and Contraception;

Zichy (English literature, Canadian literature, and European literature in translation; U. of Saskatchewan) offers a detailed reading of Kroetsch's 1969 Canadian novel, drawing often from other disciplines as well as his own and from journalism to try to soften the walls between the academic and the wider literate culture. Among his perspectives are who gave Hazard Lepage his first horse, naming the Studhorse Man himself, whether Demeter's mother knew Greek mythology, being not so clearly male, men in love, the artist's salvation and the natural man's destiny, and death and the phallus. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)