Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s "Time Out of Mind"

188 Pages·2021·8.895 MB·English

by  Graley Herren

Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s

Time Out of Mind

Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s

Time Out of Mind
Graley Herren
Anthem Press
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Copyright © Graley Herren 2021
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021936786
ISBN- 13: 978- 1- 78527- 846- 4 (Hbk)
ISBN- 10: 1- 78527- 846- 0 (Hbk)
Cover image: Bob Dylan, Dark Dressing Room Portrait, Germany, 1996 (c)
Sam Erickson. Used with permission of Sam Erickson.
This title is also available as an e- book.
In loving memory of my mother
Bonnie Herren
(1945– 2021)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix
1. Dreams and Dialogues 1
A Series of Speeches 2
Production 5
Reception 8
A Series of Interviews 13
Dreaming in Dylan 17
A Series of Dreams 20
Parameters and Approach 21
2. Murder Ballads 25
The Murder Ballad Tradition 27
Dylan’s Murder Ballads 31
Love Sickness 34
Somnicide 37
Sleepwalking to the Gallows 42
Defanging the Big Bad Wolf 46
3. Religious Allegory 53
Allegory and Allegoresis 54
Dylan’s Allegories 57
From the Red River to the Red Sea 62
The Pilgrim’s Progress and Regress 69
The Ballads of Job and Lucifer 72
The Crucifixion Blues 76
Crossing the Metaphysical Midlands 82
4. Race in America 89
Emmett Till – Then and Now 92
Essentialism ↔ Appropriation ↔ Hybridity 98
Seeing, Hearing and Telling the Blues 107
Marching and Dreaming 113
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Fugitive Slave Narrative 118
The Land Where the Blues Began 127
Notes 139
Bibliography 159
Index 169