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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... female attributes in oppositional pairs to teach him something soothing about the appeal of what is Female . The narrator of " Isis , " accompanied by bells and other jangling percussion , tries hard to please the Female but ends the ...
... female attributes in oppositional pairs to teach him something soothing about the appeal of what is Female . The narrator of " Isis , " accompanied by bells and other jangling percussion , tries hard to please the Female but ends the ...
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... Female seeks Male . In Dylan's thirteen stanzas , Isis's husband seems to be seeking some missing piece of himself . The narrator leaves the Female behind , to go off on a harebrained quest with a male stranger , seeking some unnamed ...
... Female seeks Male . In Dylan's thirteen stanzas , Isis's husband seems to be seeking some missing piece of himself . The narrator leaves the Female behind , to go off on a harebrained quest with a male stranger , seeking some unnamed ...
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... Female remains impenetrably , oxymoronicly Female . The last great development in analytically describing the effect of music on the human mind was made by Pythagoras . Musicologists and philosophers from all angles agree that no ...
... Female remains impenetrably , oxymoronicly Female . The last great development in analytically describing the effect of music on the human mind was made by Pythagoras . Musicologists and philosophers from all angles agree that no ...
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