Contents: Preface; Notes On Recording & Release Information;
Introduction:
An Album-by-Album Guide To Dylan’s Work; 20 chapters; Bibliography; Index.
The first seven chapters represent the core of the previous edition
(the 1981 second edition), but newly and fully annotated.
These are:
1. Dylan And The Folk Tradition;
2. Dylan And The Literary Tradition;
3. Dylan And Rock Music; 4. Dylan’s Use Of Language: Towards
Complexity;
5. Dylan’s Use Of Language: Towards A New Simplicity;
6. Lay Down Your Weary Tune: Drugs And Mysticism;
7. The Coming Of The Slow Train. Plus THIRTEEN new chapters:
8. Well I Investigated All The Books In The Library;
9. Even Post-Structuralists Oughta Have The Pre-War Blues;
10. Closin’ The Book On The Pages And The Text?;
11. Yonder Comes Sin: The Retreat From Evangelism;
12. Every Grain Of Sand;
13. Groom Still Waiting At The Altar?;
14. Jokerman;
15. Bob Dylan, Blind Willie McTell And ‘Blind Willie McTell’;
16. Oh Mercy... The Second Half Of The 1980s;
17. Nursery Rhyme, Fairy Tale And "Under The Red Sky";
18. Good As He’s Been In A World Gone Wrong?;
19. Time Out Of Mind;
20. There Is Only Up Wing An' Down Wing.
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Hardback ISBN: 0-304-70762-7 Paperback ISBN: 0-304-70588-8
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