Polyvocal Bob Dylan : Music, Performance, Literature

Josh Toth

ISBN 10: 3030170446 / ISBN 13: 9783030170448

Published by Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing, 2020

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan's musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan's work-his tendency to confuse, question, and subvert literary, musical, and performative traditions. Polyvocal Bob Dylan places Dylan's textual and performative art within and against a larger context of cultural and literary studies. In doing so, it invites readers to reassess how Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning work fits into and challenges traditional conceptions of literature.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Polyvocal Bob Dylan : Music, Performance, Literature
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030170446
• ISBN 13: 9783030170448
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 13D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 296 grams

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Synopsis

Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan’s musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications of certain aspects of Dylan's work—his tendency to confuse, question, and subvert literary, musical, and performative traditions. Polyvocal Bob Dylan places Dylan’s textual and performative art within and against a larger context of cultural and literary studies. In doing so, it invites readers to reassess how Dylan’s Nobel Prize–winning work fits into and challenges traditional conceptions of literature.

 

About the Author

Nduka Otiono is Assistant Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, CA. Along with two volumes of poetry and a collection of short stories, he is co-editor of Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006).

Josh Toth is Associate Professor of English at MacEwan University, CA. He is author of The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary (2010) and Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion (2018).