ENGL 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mordecai Richler, Leonard Cohen, Literary Modernism
11 May 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
A critical and contemporary literature, opened up by the particular position of being a minority and surrounded/immersed in another language (?) Modernist poetry: r. scott (1899 - 1985) Scott is an important gure in canadian modernism: through his writing, and his involvement with little magazines. in the 20s and 30s, he waged a battle against. Romanticism to introduce a new poetry: m. klein (1909 - 1972) There can be no serious discussion of canadian literary modernism, jewish-canadian writing, or the montreal imagination that does not include mention of a. m. klein. Klein has been immortalized in song by leonard cohen, included as a character in a novel by mordecai richler, honoured with a prize in his name by the qu bec writers". Federation, and named a historical figure by parks canada. An early and important example of the anglo-quebec tradition.
