Failure's opposite : listening to A.M. Klein /

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Imprint:Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Description:vi, 267 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
French
Yiddish
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8437558
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Other authors / contributors:Ravvin, Norman, 1963-
Simon, Sherry.
ISBN:9780773538320 (bound)
0773538321 (bound)
9780773538627 (pbk.)
0773538623 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259) and index.
Includes some text in French and Yiddish.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Traces. From ghetto to Diaspora: A.M. Klein in our time / Zailig Pollock ; On being published in heaven: the case of Klein and Kerouac / Norman Ravvin ; "Myself in time ... and space": the letters of A.M. Klein's poetry and prose / Robert Melançon
  • pt. 2. A targum leben: the translator. Ken men tantsn af tsvey khasenes? A.M. Klein and Yiddish / Rebecca Margolis ; Some Hebrew and Yiddish Vorlage in the poetry of A.M. Klein / Ira Robinson ; Wolofsky ibergesetst, or how does A.M. Klein translate? / Pierre Anctil
  • pt. 3. Montreal and beyond. Readin A.M. Klein's "The mountain" alongside the Montreal poems of J.I. Segal / Lianne Moyes ; Montreal, Dublin, Prague, Jerusalem, and the others: A.M. Klein's cities / Sherry Simon ; Looking for A.M. Klein in Winnipeg's Anglo-Jewish press / Robert Schwartzwald
  • pt. 4. The literary offspring: Richler, Cohen, and Michaels. Richler, son of Klein / Reinhold Kramer ; Uncle Melech and Cousin Joey: the search for the absent hero in A.M. Klein's The second scroll and Moredecai Richler's St. Urbain's horseman / Lawrence Kaplan ; A.M. Klein: Mordecai Richler's versions / David Leahy ; Converting failure in Klein, Cohen, and Michaels / Ian Rae.