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A.M. Klein and the Condition of Being Jewish
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A.M. Klein and the Condition of Being Jewish
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| Abstract |
According to the author, Montreal poet A.M. Klein’s sensibility and creative achievement were shaped by the fact of his being Jewish and this is as true of the poem The Rocking Chair as it is of his explicitly Jewish works. The author argues that Klein’s Jewishness has little to do with his faith or lack of it: it is more a matter of feeling part of a complex tradition which is at once brimming with life and threatened by external hostility. He maintains that Klein’s characteristic notes of tenderness and toughness grow out of his relationship with this tradition, as does his ability, especially in The Rocking Chair, to evoke a rich social and cultural context out of precisely delineated objects and individuals.
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Re-visions of Canadian Literature
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Leeds, England
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University of Leeds, Institute of Bibliography and Textual Criticism
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1984
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1-14
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en
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0-9510306-0-4
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| Notes |
Originally published in the Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes, Vol. 9, no. 2 (Summer 1984) : 9-21 |
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Walsh, William. “A.M. Klein and the Condition of Being Jewish.” In Re-Visions of Canadian Literature, edited by Shirley Chew, 1–14. Leeds, England: University of Leeds, Institute of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, 1984.
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