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The Demons of Leonard Cohen /

Who speaks in Leonard Cohen's oeuvre? By identifying the many guises in which Cohen presents himself to his audience, Francis Mus seeks to formulate an answer to this question. The countless roles assumed by Cohen's persona are not some innocent game, but strategies in response to the some...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mus, Francis (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Vroomen, Laura (Traducteur), Trehearne, Brian, 1957- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Dutch
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Collection:Canadian studies (Ottawa, Ontario)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Foreword / by Brian Trehearne
  • Introduction. Leonard Cohen, who are you?
  • Image : on the self-representation in the music
  • Artistry : on the relationship between maker, work, and audience
  • Alienation : from local embeddedness and global exile to universal aspirations and back again
  • Intermezzo 1. "another vocabulary" : a writer in search of his language (1): case study of an unpublished short story
  • Intermezzo 2. "don't follow the story, follow the emotion" : a writer in search of his language (2): the international reception of beautiful losers
  • Religion : how the priest, prophet, and believer serve artistic expression
  • Power : artistic personas caught between vulnerability and authority
  • Intermezzo 3. "everyone must fall" : freedom as consciousness : about longing and loss
  • Encounter : "the only song I ever had."