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Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature
- Editor: Otiono, Nduka
- Editor: Toth, Josh
Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature
- Editor: Otiono, Nduka
- Editor: Toth, Josh
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Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan’s musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan's work—his tendency to confuse, question, and subvert literary, musical, and performative traditions. Polyvocal Bob Dylan places Dylan’s textual and performative art within and against a larger context of cultural and literary studies. In doing so, it invites readers to reassess how Dylan’s Nobel Prize–winning work fits into and challenges traditional conceptions of literature.
Contents
- 1. Introduction: The Foreign Sounds of Dylan's Literary Art
- Josh Toth and Nduka Otiono
- Part I: Literature and Music
- 2. Restless Epitaphs: Revenance and Dramatic Tension in Bob Dylan's Early Narratives
- Damian A. Carpenter
- 3. Dylan's Deixis
- Charles O. Hartman
- 4. Not Just Literature: Exploring the Performative Dimensions of Bob Dylan's Work
- Keith Nainby
- 5. The Complexities of Freedom and Dylan's Liberation of the Listener
- Astrid Franke
- Part II: Performance and Literature
- 6. "Blowin' in the Wind": Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the Question of American Identity
- Katherine Weiss
- 7. Bob Dylan's "Westerns": Border Crossings and the Flight from "the Domestic"
- John McCombe
- 8. "I Don't Do Sketches from Memory": Bob Dylan and Autobiography
- Emily Wittman and Paul R. Wright
- 9. Beyond Genre: Lyrics, Literature, and the Influence of Bob Dylan's Transgressive Creative Imagination
- Nduka Otiono
