No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan Falco Raphael
A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitionerWINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATUREThe literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if…
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A groundbreaking appreciation of Dylan as a literary practitionerWINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATUREThe literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed overnight when Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, challenging us to think of him as an integral part of our national and international literary heritage. No One to Meet: Imitation and Originality in the Songs of Bob Dylan places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition.In lucid prose, Raphael Falco demonstrates the similarity between what Renaissance writers called imitatio and the way Dylan borrows, digests, and transforms traditional songs. Although Dylan's lyrical
Bob Dylan in the 1980s