Literary Essays and Reviews : : Collected Works of A.M. Klein / / A.M. Klein; ed. by M.W. Steinberg, Usher Caplan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Klein, A.M.,
• MitwirkendeR: Aleichem, Sholom,; Babel, Isaak,; Bension, Ariel,; Bernheim, Alfred,; Buber, Martin,; Chagall, Bella,; Dworkin, Evlin Yehoash,; Ehrenburg, Ilya,; Ellmann, Richard,; Glatzer, Nahum N.,; Gold, Michael,; Goldstick, Isidore,; Grafstein, Melech,; Hall, James,; Hecht, Ben,; Hirshprung, Pinchos,; Jeffers, Robinson,; Kafka, Franz,; Kennedy, Leo,; Kesten, Hermann,; Klonitzki-Kline, Solomon,; Koestler, Arthur,; Layton, Irving,; Lewisohn, Ludwig,; Mann, Klaus,; Petrushka, Symcha,; Pratt, E.J.,; Rabinovitch, Israel,; Ravitch, Melech,; Rilke, Rainer Maria,; Rosner, Jacob,; Sartre, Jean-Paul,; Segal, J.I.,; Smith, A.J.M.,; Stauffer, Donald,; Steinmann, Martin,; Vishniac, Roman,; Zim, Jacob,; Zlotnik, Judah L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Caplan, Usher,; Steinberg, M.W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [1987]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (454 p.)

The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing. Among the subjects that come under the critic's unblinking eye are various genres of Jewish literature, illuminating not only on their own terms but also for what they reveal about Klein's Jewish poems. There are also essays on Canadian, American, English, and European literature as general subjects, and others on specific works and individual writers, including the acclaimed articles on James Joyce. Throughout this collection is heard a critical voice sharpened with erudition and enriched with emotion. The essays are framed with an introduction, which presents a thematic analysis, and a biographical chronology, which places the essays in the context of Klein's life and work as teacher, poet, novelist, and critic.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Biographical Chronology -- 1. Jewish Literature And Culture -- Koheleth. Review Of Koheleth: The Man And The Book -- Baal Shem In Modern Dress. Review Of Lyric -- White Magic. Review Of The Zohar In Moslem And Christian Spain -- Chaim Nachman Bialik -- Music Hath Charm. Review Of Jewish Music And Other Essays On Musical Topics -- The Art Of The Passover Haggadah -- The Last Of The Badchanim - Shloime Shmulevitz -- Saadyah Gaon -- Bialik Thou Shouldst Be Living At This Hour -- Saul Tchernichovsky -- The Thirteenth Apostle? -- Palestine Moving-Pictures -- Had Not Thy Torah Been My Delight ... Review Of From The Nazi Vale Of Tears -- Some Praise The Lord - Some Pass The Ammunition. Review Of The Sabbath Prayer Book Published By The Jewish Reconstructionist Foundation -- The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of My Lexicon -- The Poetry Which Is Prayer. Review Of Líder Un Loiben -- An Encyclopedic Work. Review Of The Mishna -- 'Apples Of Gold In Pictures Of Silver' Review Of Milan Dikduki ('Lexicon Of Hebrew Homonyms') -- The Snows Of Yesteryear. Review Of Burning Lights -- Look On This Picture And On This ... Review Of A Palestine Picture Book And Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record -- Only Half the Language of Faith. Review of The Language of Faith: Selected Jewish Prayers -- Baedeker: Kasrilevke. Review of Inside Kasrilevke -- The Dybbuk. Text of a Trans-Canada Radio Talk -- A Chassidic Anthology. Review of Tales of the Hasidim: The Later Masters -- Melech Grafstein's Sholom Aleichem. Review of A Sholom Aleichem Panorama -- Poet of a World Passed By. Review of Sefer Yiddish -- The Art of Hertz Grosbard -- Poems of Yehoash. Review of Poems of Yehoash -- Of Hebrew. Calligraphy Review of The Israel Art Haggadah -- In Memoriam: J.I. Segal -- 2. Jewish Folk Culture -- Jewish Folk-Songs -- Of Hebrew Humor -- On Translating the Yiddish Folk-Song -- The Yiddish Proverb -- 3. The Bible -- The Bible as Literature -- The Gesture of the Bible -- The Bible Manuscripts -- The Bible's Archetypical Poet -- 4. Literature And The Arts -- From The McGill Daily -- Proletarian Poetry -- National Anthems -- Queen Mab and Mickey Mouse -- Annotation on Shapiro's Essay on Rime -- A Definition of Poetry? A Reply to a Request -- Sha! Sha! Shostakovitch! -- Marginalia -- Book Reviewing, in Seven Easy Lessons -- The Usurper -- In Memoriam: Alexander Bercovitch -- The Case of Jascha Heifetz -- 5. Canadian Literature -- Mortal Coils. Review Of The Shrouding -- The Decencies Had Perished With The Stukas'. Review Of Dunkirk -- The Poetry Of A.J.M. Smith. Review Of News Of The Phoenix -- New Writers Series, No. 1. Review Of Here And Now -- Writing In Canada. A Reply To A Questionnaire -- 6. American, European, And English Literature -- A Curse on Columbus. Review of Jews Without Money -- The Jew in English Poetry -- Robinson Jeffers - Poet-Fascist? Review of Be Angry at the Sun -- Is This the Jew the Authors Drew? -- The Heart of Europe. Review of Heart of Europe -- Maimonides in Hollywood. Review of A Guide for the Bedevilled -- Grand Invective. Review of The Tempering of Russia -- Those Who Should Have Been Ours -- Rilke and His Translators. Review of Thirty-one Poems -- Departure and Arrival Review of Thieves in the Night -- Knut Hamsun -- Isaak Babel Review of Benya Krik, the Gangster, and Other Stories -- That Rank Picture -- Cantabile. Review of The Cantos of Ezra Pound -- Of Jewish Existentialism. Review of Antisémite and Jew -- T.S. Eliot and the Nobel Prize -- Hemlock and Marijuana. Review of In the Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces -- Old Ez and His Blankets -- The Masked Yeats Review of Yeats: The Man and the Masks, The Golden Nightingale and The Permanence of Yeats -- Homage to Ludwig Lewisohn -- 7. James Joyce's Ulysses -- The Oxen of the Sun -- The Black Panther. A Study in Technique -- A Shout in the Street. An Analysis of the Second Chapter of Joyce's Ulysses -- Textual Notes and Emendations -- Notes -- Index