A Study and Interpretation of the Judaic Allusion in The Second Scroll and The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein : Annotations and Commentary
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A Study and Interpretation of the Judaic Allusion in The Second Scroll and The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein : Annotations and Commentary
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| Abstract |
The author points out that Montreal poet and novelist A.M. Klein (1909-1972) was an heir to the tradition of the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment of the nineteenth century), in particular the school of "Jewish Science.” The school sought to prove, by European standards, that Judaism possesses a creative culture equivalent to that of other nations. The author discusses how Klein was influenced by Montreal intellectuals, disciples of the Haskalah, and ambitiously resolved to create equivalents to the English classics using Jewish subject matter. The author found among Klein's works ballads, nursery rhymes, sonnets, Eliotic poems and a novel in the style of Joyce's Ulysses with overtones of the King James Bible. The Jewish subject matter is conveyed mainly through allusion. The author traces Klein's allusions to their biblical, Talmudic and folkloric sources. Klein's poems are critically interpreted in relation to their Jewish content. The author explains that in Klein's 1951 novel The Second Scroll, Klein's only published novel, terms and concepts are explicated and the biblical parallels are elucidated.
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PhD dissertation
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McGill University
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Montreal
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1979
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502p.
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en
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Spiro, Solomon J. “A Study and Interpretation of the Judaic Allusion in The Second Scroll and The Collected Poems of A.M. Klein : Annotations and Commentary.” PhD dissertation, McGill University, 1979. https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/2j62s722h?locale=en.
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