Do You Mr Jones? (eBook)

Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors

Neil Corcoran (Autor)

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2010 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Random House (Verlag)
978-1-4464-1332-6 (ISBN)

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In 'Ballad of a Thin Man' in 1965, Dylan launched a withering attack on the myopic critic of culture:'Something is happening here But you don't know what it is, Do you, Mister Jones?' Yet Dylan himself has been a subject of consuming interest to many of the most significant poets and critics over the last thirty years. It has even been argued that he is the finest living user of the English language - true to his genius through all his changes of stance, constantly exploring the state of his soul as he dons the cloak of lover, clown, cowboy, priest, bleak prophet of doom. In this collection, poets and professors explore different aspects of Dylan's work, writing about his impact on their own intellectual and artistic lives, as well as his wider influence. Contributors are Simon Armitage, Richard Brown, Christopher Butler, Bryan Cheyette, Patrick Crotty, Aidan Day, Mark Ford, Lavinia Greenlaw, Daniel Karlin, Paul Muldoon, Nicholas Roe, Pamela Thurschwell, Susan Wheeler and Sean Wilentz. Serious Dylan criticism is rare and these fascinating, specially commissioned essays are rigorous and challenging, at once a celebration and a questioning of a powerful talent, the genius Leonard Cohen called 'the Picasso of song'.

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In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition . This collection of essays by leading poets and critics with a new foreword by Will Self examines Dylan s poetic genius, as well as his astounding cultural influence over the decades. From Orpheus to Faiz, song and poetry have been closely linked. Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition Salman Rushdie The most significant Western popular artist in any form or medium of the past sixty years Will Self For fifty and some years he has bent, coaxed, teased and persuaded words into lyric and narrative shapes that are at once extraordinary and inevitable Andrew Motion His haunting music and lyrics have always seemed, in the deepest sense, literary Joyce Carol Oates There is something inevitable about Bob Dylan A storyteller pulling out all the stops metaphor, allegory, repetition, precise detail His virtue is in his style, his attitude, his disposition to the world Simon Armitage

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4464-1332-2 / 1446413322
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4464-1332-6 / 9781446413326