The Studhorse Man

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888644256

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The Studhorse Man by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion's bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos, necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women, except for those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlor tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, The Studhorse Man is Robert Kroetsch's celebration of unbridled character set against the backdrop of rough-and-ready Alberta emerging after the Second World War.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : Stoddart Kids
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 0773670335

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The Studhorse Man by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

Author : Francis Zichy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 143310833X

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Disenchanted Modernity in Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man by Francis Zichy Pdf

This book undertakes a detailed reading of Robert Kroetsch's The Studhorse Man, examining this Canadian novel in its transnational historical and socio-cultural context. Key subject headings are biology and culture, sex and gender, eugenics and contraception, writing and reading. The overarching theme is «disenchanted modernity» in the twentieth-century, the systematic displacement of the divine and natural order by a humanly ordained social regime, and by forms of social engineering that brought to bear the full force of modern science, invasively to alter the most fundamental conditions of human life. The more immediate literary frames of reference are Greek mythology, early Christian debates on the body and marriage, and the lore of the North American Aboriginal trickster, as these are deployed and alluded to in Kroetsch's novel. In establishing the sources and contexts of The Studhorse Man, this study examines Robert Kroetsch's early drafts of the novel, and his many notes taken and clippings assembled during its composition. An effort has been made to appeal to a wide range of general and academic readers alike by avoiding specialized jargon and adopting a cross-disciplinary approach. This book will be of interest to scholars of literature and literary theory, and of use in courses on literature and the novel, on masculinity and gender studies, and on cultural history in the twentieth century.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:627228358

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The studhorse man by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888643497

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The Words of My Roaring by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

"I was electioneering. By God, people were listening. People were looking my way. And some joker with his arse begining to ache from sitting too long on a nail had to clear his throat and chip in, "Backstrom, what have you got to offer?" I looked at the speaker and saw he was a farmer and I said, "Mister, how would you like some rain?" A new edition of another classic from one of Canada's most enduring novelists.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0888643500

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Completed Field Notes by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

This book brings together twenty of Kroetsch's long poems, spanning some of 15 years of creative activity. Remarkably versatile in both form and content, these extended meditations bear witness to Kroetsch's modernist inheritance and his well-known commitment to post-modern jouissance.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : Red Deer Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0773760865

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Gone Indian by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

"Overcome by his curious academic and sexual inadequacies, professional graduate student Jeremy Sadness lights out from his cramped office at a New York state university for the wilds of the Canadian northwest. He inadvertently exchanges suitcases - and identities - with Roger Dorck, the comatose victim of a snowmobiling accident, and becomes hopelessly embroiled in the comic Bacchanalia of the Notikeewin winter festival, during which he is arrested and compelled to judge a beauty contest in which all the contestants look exactly alike. This satire of the "quest novel" is one of the most hilarious works in Canadian literature."--Back cover

Author : Susan Rudy
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554587773

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Women, Reading, Kroetsch by Susan Rudy Pdf

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes. Other chapters self-consciously examine the history and possibility of feminist deconstruction and feminist readings of Kroetsch’s writing by analyzing Kroetsch, Derrida, and Freud on subjectivity and sexuality; Neuman, Hutcheon, and van Herk on Kroetsch. As such, the book speaks out of and about a number of contemporary theoretical discourses, including particular positions within Canadian literary criticism, feminism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Written by a woman reader whose theoretical and methodological orientations are both feminist and poststructuralist, Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference problematizes notions of writing, reading, gender, sexuality, and subjectivity in and through Robert Kroetsch’s writings. In this critical study of one writer’s work the author also challenges the traditionally subservient relationship of reader to text and so empowers the feminist reader as well as, if not rather than, the male writer.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1240478727

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What the Crow Said by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

Author : Jeanette Lynes
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781550504019

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The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes Pdf

Wrapped around the stories of these four women, is a mystery. Something''s gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort -- they keep crashing in flight tests, for no apparent reason. Is the problem with their design, or are they being sabotaged? By whom? The traitorous Red Finns? The political subversives who have recently escaped from one of the nearby prison camps? Everyone''s on high alert, and "The Factory Voice" keeps abreast of the details. Or at least the rumours.

Author : Joseph Boyden
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143189404

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The Orenda by Joseph Boyden Pdf

A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, The Orenda opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar. Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling amongst the Huron and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than his faith to the new world. As these three souls dance each other through intricately woven acts of duplicity, small battles erupt into bigger wars and a nation emerges from worlds in flux.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780888646354

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The Hornbooks of Rita K by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her oeuvre? Written with wit and playfulness, Hornbooks is a welcome new work from one of Canada's best writers.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451686883

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Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Pdf

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series. Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551993058

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Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro Pdf

This stunning collection of stories demonstrates once again why Alice Munro is celebrated as a pre-eminent master of the short story. While some of the stories are traditional, set in “Alice Munro Country” in Ontario or in B.C., dealing with ordinary women’s lives, others have a new, sharper edge. They involve child murders, strange sex, and a terrifying home invasion. By way of astonishing variety, the title story, set in Victorian Europe, follows the last journey from France to Sweden of a famous Russian mathematician. This daring, superb collection proves that Alice Munro will always surprise you.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037846717

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A Likely Story by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

A Likely Story recounts the writing life of Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's foremost writers and literary theorists. With incisive wit, humor and penetrating insight, Robert Kroetsch follows the events of his life, both real and literary, that have moved him from the bareness of desk and computer into the secret places at the heart of the writing experience. Throughout this chronicle, he toys ironically with the notion that he ceases to be himself when he writes, that writing allows him to escape from the confines of self into exciting varieties of the essay, story and poem. A Likely Story records in loving detail that escape. It is a remarkable assemblage of confessional personal essays, one of the principal elegiac poems of out time, a cowboy poem and speculative pieces that defy literary classification. Through them all Robert Kroetsch enters the landscape of recollection, discovery, delight, self-deception, play, grief and revelation, and through them all he insists with customary boldness: "I am attempting to write an autobiography in which I do not appear."