“The Low Hum in Syllables and Meters”: Blues Poetics in Bob Dylan’s Verbal Art
Catharine Mason
Applying the linguistic category of style as put forth by Dell Hymes, this article seeks to identify the poetic devices…
Nothing’s Been Changed, Except the Words: Some Faithful Attempts at Covering Bob Dylan Songs in French
Nicolas Froeliger
This article deals with the French translation and performed covers of Bob Dylan songs, with a view to setting forth…
A Semantic and Syntactic Journey Through the Dylan Corpus
Jean-Charles Khalifa
This article is a corpus-based exploration of Bob Dylan’s lexicon and syntactic structures based on an examination of the 400-plus…
Bob Dylan, the Ordinary Star
Laure Bouquerel
This article provides a study of Bob Dylan’s public image as a “star” performer and examines what Dylan represented for…
Amerindian Roots of Bob Dylan’s Poetry
Emmanuel Désveaux
In an application of both the findings and the methods of structural anthropology as laid out in the works of…
“‘Sólo Soy Un Guitarrista’: Bob Dylan in the Spanish-Speaking World—Influences, Parallels, Reception, and Translation”
Christopher Rollason
This article examines key aspects of the relationship between the work of Bob Dylan and the cultures of Spain and…
Never Quite Sung in this Fashion Before: Bob Dylan’s “Man of Constant Sorrow”
Todd Harvey
Many of Bob Dylan’s early compositions were drawn from pre-existing musical sources. This article traces the song “I Am a…
Vocal Performance and Speech Intonation: Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”
Michael Daley
This article proposes a linguistic analysis of a recorded performance of a single verse of one of Dylan’s most popular…
Living, Breathing Songs: Singing Along with Bob Dylan
Keith Negus
Taking issue with approaches to Bob Dylan’s art that are preoccupied with his lyrics, this article suggests a route into…
A Face like a Mask and a Voice that Croaks: An Integrated Poetics of Bob Dylan’s Voice, Personae, and Lyrics
Christophe Lebold
This article seeks to examine the literary pleasures derived from Bob Dylan’s songs, paying special attention to how Dylan’s poetical…
The Streets of Rome: The Classical Dylan
Richard Thomas
One of the preoccupations of Dylan scholarship has had to do with his intertexts, where his songs come from, and…
Dylan and the Nobel
Gordon Ball
This article argues for Bob Dylan’s nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Traditional criteria for the award include outstanding…
Introduction
Catharine Mason, Richard Thomas
