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 / 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 . 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 prize . Images ...
... 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 prize . Images ...
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... Male and Female worlds , so that the narrator can announce his relief publicly while privately feeling happy for another reason . As they ride , then , his thoughts drift to his past and future life with Isis and to the material wealth ...
... Male and Female worlds , so that the narrator can announce his relief publicly while privately feeling happy for another reason . As they ride , then , his thoughts drift to his past and future life with Isis and to the material wealth ...
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