Performed Literature: Words and Music by Bob DylanBob Dylan is not a poet. He is a singer-songwriter, a performing artist. The unit of his art, as collected and documented by his intended audience, is the live performance. Right now, no existing technological tool can give researchers ready access to his entire corpus of work. Revised from the author's Ph.D. dissertation (UC Berkeley, 1978) and again from its first edition (Indiana UP, 1982), Performed Literature develops a methodology for close analysis of verbal art that is heard, not seen, using as comparative examples 24 performances of 11 songs by Bob Dylan. The second edition adds a preface, two major appendices and one minor one, and a detailed index. |
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... lady's eyes and the " I " of the narrator . Although the song tells how this " I " feels toward the sad - eyed lady , speculation about what " they " have said or done to her fills the narrator's musings . But this potentially ...
... lady's eyes and the " I " of the narrator . Although the song tells how this " I " feels toward the sad - eyed lady , speculation about what " they " have said or done to her fills the narrator's musings . But this potentially ...
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... lady's sad eyes have so influenced the narrator's way of seeing that his own eyes share her oxymoronic , nonrational power . The metaphor also carries the sense of a warehouse as a vast storage area , filled with myriads of images of ...
... lady's sad eyes have so influenced the narrator's way of seeing that his own eyes share her oxymoronic , nonrational power . The metaphor also carries the sense of a warehouse as a vast storage area , filled with myriads of images of ...
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... lady idealizes him ; in past tense , it shows her inability to understand how little he likes being where it's at . The slow " Sweet lady " and then a rich organ chord signal the start of the first refrain . Careful listening reveals ...
... lady idealizes him ; in past tense , it shows her inability to understand how little he likes being where it's at . The slow " Sweet lady " and then a rich organ chord signal the start of the first refrain . Careful listening reveals ...
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