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Women,Reading,Kroestsch Telling the Difference SUSANRUDY DORSCHT 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 contem- porary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We Are Exiles to Completed Field Notes. Other chapters self-con- sciously examine the history and possibility of feminist deconstruc- tion 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, femi- nism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Written by a woman readerwhosetheoreticalandmethodologicalorientationsare feminist and poststructuralist, Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling theDifferenceproblematizes 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. Susan Rudy Dorscht teaches literary and feminist theory, writ- ing by women, and Canadian writings in the English Depart- ment at the University of Calgary. This page intentionally left blank Women, Reading, Kroetsch Telling the Difference This page intentionally left blank Women, Reading, Kroetscn TELLING THE DIFFERENCE SUSAN RUDY DORSCHT Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Rudy Dorscht, Susan Arlene, 1961- Women, Reading, Kroetsch Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88920-205-2 1. Kroetsch, Robert, 1927- - Criticism and interpretation. 2. Feminist literary criticism. 3. Feminism and literature. I. Title. PS8521.R64Z85 1991 C813'.54 C91-095476-3 PR9199.3.K76Z85 1991 Copyright © 1991 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 Cover design by Connolly Art & Design Printed in Canada All rights reserved. No part of this work covered by the copyrights hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means — graphic, electronic or mechani- cal — without the prior written permission of the publisher. Any request for photo- copying, recording, taping, or reproducing in information storage and retrieval sys- tems of any part of this book shall be directed in writing to the Canadian Reprogra- phy Collective, 379 Adelaide Street West, Suite Ml, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1S5. for Brian, and for Erin and Julian This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Women, Reading, Kroetsch 1 PART ONE Reading Woman CHAPTER ONE Telling as Difference: Feminism, Subjectivity, Kroetsch 15 CHAPTER TWO Reading A(-)Woman: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, Sexuality 27 PART TWO Reading Kroetsch CHAPTER THREE RereadingFieldotes:Badlands the Continuing Poem 37 CHAPTER FOUR Exposing the Subject: The Line in (the) Peter's Hand(s): Or, But We Are Exiles 53 CHAPTER FIVE How The Studhorse Man Makes Love: Writing in a New Country 61 CHAPTER SIX "This Version of Man": Telling the Story with What the Crow Said 71 CHAPTER SEVEN Alibis for Being(,) Lost 81 ix
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