Thursday, PM2
Both Montreal poets Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton found broad, varied audiences in the 1960s and ’70s. However, it is yet to be examined with care how they were received as groundbreaking Jewish writers amidst a largely Toronto-based, Anglo-Protestant literary tradition. This talk, making substantial use of the poets’ work, will address Jewishness as a motivating element in their writing, and as a complicating factor in their reception in this country.
Faculty: Norman Ravvin
