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The Klein-Joyce Enigma
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The Klein-Joyce Enigma
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| Abstract |
The author seeks deeper soundings in Montreal poet and novelist A.M. Klein’s (1909-1972) psyche. He bases these soundings in part on Klein’s 1940s letters to the author, read in the light of Usher Caplan’s 1982 biography of Klein (Like One That Dreamed: A Portrait of A.M. Klein). The author explores the poet’s obsession with Irish novelist James Joyce and Klein's other extra-poetic activities — public relations, journalism, Zionist lectures, politics. The author suggests that beyond his struggle for a livelihood, A.M. Klein had a marked ambivalence towards his mother who was critical of his bookishness and his failure to adhere to the bourgeois side of life as well as his law practice. Klein’s plan to produce a gloss to all of Ulysses and his "transference" to Joyce are discussed by the author in the light of their Judaeo-Catholic and Montreal-Dublin affinities.
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Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d'études canadiennes
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Vol. 19
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no. 2
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27-33
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Summer 1984
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Edel, Leon. “The Klein-Joyce Enigma.” Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1984): 27–33.
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