Bibliograph

Northern love, an exploration of Canadian masculinity, Paul Nonnekes

Type

Label

Northern love, an exploration of Canadian masculinity, Paul Nonnekes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Northern love

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Paul Nonnekes

Series statement

Cultural dialectics series

Sub title

an exploration of Canadian masculinity

Summary

In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masculinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two representative male characters in novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creeks). Ranging from debates on the Hegelian master-slave dialectic to the Lacanian Name of the Father, and from Butler's strange gender to Zizek's subjective awareness of lack, Nonnekes probes the two novels and their main characters, eliciting an evolving conception of love characteristic of the Canadian cultural imaginary

Target audience

adult

Classification