{"product_id":"9781496813336","title":"Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century","description":"\u003cbr\u003eContributions by Alberto Brodesco, James Cody, Andrea Cossu, Anne Margaret Daniel, Jesper Doolard, Nina Goss, Jonathan Hodgers, Jamie Lorentzen, Fahri �z, Nick Smart, and Thad Williamson\u003cbr\u003eBob Dylan is many things to many people. Folk prodigy. Rock poet. Quiet gentleman. Dionysian impresario. Cotton Mather. Stage hog. Each of these Dylan creations comes with its own accessories, including a costume, a hairstyle, a voice, a lyrical register, a metaphysics, an audience, and a library of commentary. Each Bob Dylan joins a collective cast that has made up his persona for over fifty years.\u003cbr\u003eNo version of Dylan turns out uncomplicated, but the postmillennial manifestation seems peculiarly contrary�a tireless and enterprising antiquarian; a creator of singular texts and sounds through promiscuous poaching; an artist of innovation and uncanny renewal. This is a Dylan of persistent surrender from and engagement with a world he perceives as broken and enduring, addressing us from a past that is lost and yet forever present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTearing the World Apart\u003c\/i\u003e participates in the creation of the postmillennial Bob Dylan by exploring three central records of the twenty-first century�\u003ci\u003e�Love and Theft�\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eModern Times\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), and \u003ci\u003eTempest\u003c\/i\u003e (2012)�along with the 2003 film \u003ci\u003eMasked and Anonymous\u003c\/i\u003e, which Dylan helped write and in which he appears as an actor and musical performer.\u003cbr\u003eThe collection of essays does justice to this difficult Bob Dylan by examining his method and effects through a disparate set of viewpoints. Readers will find a variety of critical contexts and cultural perspectives as well as a range of experiences as members of Dylan�s audience. The essays in \u003ci\u003eTearing the World Apart\u003c\/i\u003e illuminate, as a prism might, their intransigent subject from enticing and intersecting angles.","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47136618152176,"sku":"9781496813336","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781496813336_p0.jpg?v=1763666925","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781496813336","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}