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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... male narrators speaks of himself , not of Bob Dylan's personal life , these four songs might still seem to show a linear development through Dylan's career . At first glance , the male narra- tors appear to be expanding their ...
... male narrators speaks of himself , not of Bob Dylan's personal life , these four songs might still seem to show a linear development through Dylan's career . At first glance , the male narra- tors appear to be expanding their ...
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... male / female relationship from the male point of view . The power to begin or end a relationship is symbolized most often as the Road -as the power of male or female to take to the road or to let the searching partner find him or her ...
... male / female relationship from the male point of view . The power to begin or end a relationship is symbolized most often as the Road -as the power of male or female to take to the road or to let the searching partner find him or her ...
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... male - heroic contest of physical prowess , resembling the oedipal contest wherein the son slays the father and takes the kingdom - as Seth was trying to do by chopping up Osiris . This contest , though , the Osiris / narrator wins by ...
... male - heroic contest of physical prowess , resembling the oedipal contest wherein the son slays the father and takes the kingdom - as Seth was trying to do by chopping up Osiris . This contest , though , the Osiris / narrator wins by ...
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