Michael Greenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1238625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Greenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenstein |
| SIGNATURE | GREENSTEIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Sherbrooke |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9763-4752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Canadian Jewish Poetry
Is Canadian Jewish Poetry a meaningful category of study? Are there particular traits that differentiate Canadian Jewish poets from poets of other countries, or from writers in other genres? How do contemporary poets confront the looming legacy of Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and A.M. Klein? Six prominent poets and scholars conduct a roundtable discussion to articulate recent developments in the field
Echo in The Winter Vault
The intertextuality of Anne Michaels’s The Winter Vault may be found not only in recurrent themes and images from her earlier novel, Fugitive Pieces, and her poetry, but also in the inclusion of other writers in her novel. Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism, chronotopes, polyphony, heteroglossia, and the carnivalesque; John Hollander’s study of echo and transumption; and Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of “strange loops” – all offer means of und…
Nautilus and Bone , by Lisa Richter
Nautilus and Bone, by Lisa Richter. Frontenac House, 2020. 112pp., Pb., $19.95 ISBN-13: 9781989466124
Dynamics of Place
This essay applies Michel Foucault's theory of heterotopia or other place to Anne Michaels's second novel, The Winter Vault , which repeatedly uses "place" as trope and topos . These "counter-sites" in her fiction contest communal and environmental displacements, and help to transform the otherness of her characters from loss to partial belonging
Minyan in Daniel Deronda
George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), is arguably her finest achievement. Deftly combining the plot of Gwendolen Harleth’s provincial English life with the Jewish plot involving Deronda’s hidden identity, Eliot’s fiction advances in new directions. After studying Jewish history and philosophy for a number of years, Eliot turned to “the other” in her writing, reaching out to a Jewish minority in the Diaspora, which was trying to finds…
An old task in new clothes
JUT note
Arnost Lustig, Children of the Holocaust
Between Ottawa and St. Ives
North America's Jewish Intellectuals
Alexander Bloom. Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and their World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 419 pp. Mark Shechner. After the Revolution: Studies in the Contemporary Jewish-American Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. 390 pp. Asked why she moved to New York, Elizabeth Hardwick confessed that she wished to become a Jewish intellectual. Being a Jewish writer, however, is not in itself sufficient for Mor…
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Between Ottawa and St. Ives
North America's Jewish Intellectuals
Alexander Bloom. Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and their World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. 419 pp. Mark Shechner. After the Revolution: Studies in the Contemporary Jewish-American Imagination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. 390 pp. Asked why she moved to New York, Elizabeth Hardwick confessed that she wished to become a Jewish intellectual. Being a Jewish writer, however, is not in itself sufficient for Mor…
Arnost Lustig, Children of the Holocaust
JUT note
An old task in new clothes
Minyan in Daniel Deronda
George Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), is arguably her finest achievement. Deftly combining the plot of Gwendolen Harleth’s provincial English life with the Jewish plot involving Deronda’s hidden identity, Eliot’s fiction advances in new directions. After studying Jewish history and philosophy for a number of years, Eliot turned to “the other” in her writing, reaching out to a Jewish minority in the Diaspora, which was trying to finds…
Echo in The Winter Vault
The intertextuality of Anne Michaels’s The Winter Vault may be found not only in recurrent themes and images from her earlier novel, Fugitive Pieces, and her poetry, but also in the inclusion of other writers in her novel. Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of dialogism, chronotopes, polyphony, heteroglossia, and the carnivalesque; John Hollander’s study of echo and transumption; and Douglas Hofstadter’s notion of “strange loops” – all offer means of und…
Nautilus and Bone , by Lisa Richter
Nautilus and Bone, by Lisa Richter. Frontenac House, 2020. 112pp., Pb., $19.95 ISBN-13: 9781989466124
Dynamics of Place
This essay applies Michel Foucault's theory of heterotopia or other place to Anne Michaels's second novel, The Winter Vault , which repeatedly uses "place" as trope and topos . These "counter-sites" in her fiction contest communal and environmental displacements, and help to transform the otherness of her characters from loss to partial belonging
Canadian Jewish Poetry
Is Canadian Jewish Poetry a meaningful category of study? Are there particular traits that differentiate Canadian Jewish poets from poets of other countries, or from writers in other genres? How do contemporary poets confront the looming legacy of Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, and A.M. Klein? Six prominent poets and scholars conduct a roundtable discussion to articulate recent developments in the field
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