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Zusatztext As a capacious American studies sourcebook... Song of the North Country persuasively positions Dylan in an American cannon that includes Fitzgerald, Cather, Frost, Kerouac, Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Sinclair Lewis, Meridel LeSeur, Robert Bly, Garrison Keillor, Hamlin Garland, William Gass, and Leo Marx. Informationen zum Autor David Pichaske is Professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. He is the author of many books, several related to rural literature and themes, including Rooted: Six Midwest Writers of Place . He has published on a range of subjects from rock music and American culture to T.S. Eliot and Chaucer. A three-time Fulbright Lecturer to Central Europe and Outer Mongolia, Pichaske is the author of Poland in Transition: 1989-1991 . As editor of Spoon River Poetry Press, Pichaske has published Leo Dangel, Bill Holm, Norbert Blei, Linda Hasselstrom, Bill Kloefkorn, and Dave Etter, among significant rural writers. He first published on Dylan in 1972. Klappentext Focuses on the profound impact that the author's Midwestern roots have had on his songs! politics! and prophetic character. Vorwort A remarkably fresh piece of Dylan scholarship, focusing on the profound impact that his Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the profound impact that the author's Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordIntroduction: Bob Dylan and the Midwest1. Dylan's Songs of the North Country2. "And the Language That He Used"3. Bob Dylan and the Pastoral Tradition4. Going Out / Coming Back5. Bob Dylan's Prairie Populism6. The Prophet and His Mission7. "Ain't Talkin'" - A PostscriptWorks CitedIndex
