Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation: A Reading of the Lyrics 1965-1967
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501328522 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He has published critical works on various US writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Ernest Hemingway and Wallace Stevens. Louis A. He also directed a 2006 conference at Dartmouth College on Dylan's works, and has published articles on them that include
Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as “poems.” Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal “autobiography” in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.
An extraordinary journey! Through a series of dazzling close readings, he shows that Dylan's song-poems are best interpreted not as political allegories or simple autobiographical expressions, but as extended (and often tortured) reflections on the process of writing itself. * Milette Shamir, Head of American Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel * . * Michael Gilmour, Professor, Providence University College, Canada * Renza leads us through what he calls Dylan's "spiritual vocational quest" of the mid 1960s. Intelligent and beautifully written. Louis Renza discerns a stubborn otherness in Dy