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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... fourth stanza , which in its turn is paired with the man / dog line - by both sense and juxtaposition , in that stanza's strict double ranks . Within the not - so - tightly - binary second stanza , the middle two lines are linked by ...
... fourth stanza , which in its turn is paired with the man / dog line - by both sense and juxtaposition , in that stanza's strict double ranks . Within the not - so - tightly - binary second stanza , the middle two lines are linked by ...
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... stanza attributes could apply to a human woman , the final line neatly combining human artistic powers with a hint ... fourth stanzas , occurring twenty - one times ; nearly a fifth of the words in the song , in fact , are " she " and " her .
... stanza attributes could apply to a human woman , the final line neatly combining human artistic powers with a hint ... fourth stanzas , occurring twenty - one times ; nearly a fifth of the words in the song , in fact , are " she " and " her .
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... fourth stanza , the artist wears a ring with the exotic aura of ancient Egypt and , like the keyhole , with oblique ... stanza proves her irresistible , not just exotic and therefore fascinating : she wants , and she will get , " you ...
... fourth stanza , the artist wears a ring with the exotic aura of ancient Egypt and , like the keyhole , with oblique ... stanza proves her irresistible , not just exotic and therefore fascinating : she wants , and she will get , " you ...
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