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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-133) and index
Section 1 - Strange Love -- - Naming and Seeing -- - Master and Slave -- - The Imaginary -- - Strange Gender -- - Love and Trauma -- - Section 1 - Intersubjective Love -- - Recognition -- - Intersubjectivity -- - The Contract -- - Conclusion
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in pursuit of a distinctive conception of a Canadian masculinity. In close discussions of novels by Rudy Wiebe (A Discovery of Strangers) and Robert Kroetsch (The Man from the Creeks), Nonnekes ranges from Hegel to Lacan, and Butler and Kristeva to Žižek, eliciting an evolving conception of love characteristic of the Canadian cultural imaginary