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Zusatztext This lively and insightful collection of essays opens new perspectives on Bob Dylan's creative endeavors over the past several decades. The essays included here demonstrate once and for all that Dylan's most recent work may be among his best. The volume is an impressive tribute to Dylan's ongoing creative growth. Informationen zum Autor Laurence Estanove is an independent scholar and co-editor of the online journal FATHOM. Her more recent research focuses on popular music, cultural geography, and digital sociability. She has co-edited two books including Thomas Hardy, Poet: New Perspectives (2015), and is currently working on a book-length study of the independent music scene of Glasgow, Scotland. Adrian Grafe is Professor of English Literature at Artois University, France. He is the author of monographs on Hopkins (2003) and Emily Dickinson (2009) and has edited and co-edited several books on British poetry. In 2011 he was awarded a Fellowship of the English Association (GB) for his services to the study of English and poetry. Andrew McKeown is Senior Lecturer at the University of Poitiers, France and co-hosts Half Men Half Biscuits, a weekly radio show on Radio Pulsar 95.9 FM. He has written a number of articles on poetry and fiction and most recently co-edited with Adrian Grafe Roads from Arras (2018), a centenary tribute to the writing of Edward Thomas. His collection of sardonic verses entitled You What? was published in 2017 and is to be followed by Spurts , a novelette due out in spring 2021. Claire Hélie is a senior secturer in the Arts Department at Université de Lille, France. She has published several articles on contemporary poetry, drama and translation and co-edited the No D ialect Please, You're a Poet - English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries (2019). Vorwort Multidisciplinary approaches to Bob Dylan’s many artistic and cultural identities outside of "performer." Zusammenfassung Bob Dylan has constantly reinvented the persona known as “Bob Dylan,” renewing the performance possibilities inherent in his songs, from acoustic folk, to electric rock and a late, hybrid style which even hints at so-called world music and Latin American tones. Then in 2016, his achievements outside of performance – as a songwriter – were acknowledged when he was awarded the Nobel Literature Prize. Dylan has never ceased to broaden the range of his creative identity, taking in painting, film, acting and prose writing, as well as advertising and even own-brand commercial production. The book highlights how Dylan has brought his persona(e) to different art forms and cultural arenas, and how they in turn have also created these personae. This volume consists of multidisciplinary essays written by cultural historians, musicologists, literary academics and film experts, including contributions by critics Christopher Ricks and Nina Goss. Together, the essays reveal Dylan’s continuing artistic development and self-fashioning, as well as the making of a certain legitimized Dylan through critical and public recognition in the new millennium. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Editors Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction – Some Variations On Late Dylan Adrian Grafe, Université d’Artois, France Part 1: Honest with Me: Late Dylan’s Performing Personae1. ‘I Made It So Easy for You to Follow Me’: A Case for Dylan’s Revisionist Art (2012) Nina Goss, Fordham University, New York, USA 2. Masked, Anonymized and Chronicled: Dylan’s Fatal Auto-Mythos for the New Millennium Jim Salvucci, Union College, Kentucky, USA 3. Performativity, Subversion and Mask-ulinity: Dylan On Screen, Dylan As Screen Sara Martínez, Lancaster University, UK 4. No Direction Home
