Lit-Rock

Contributors

Introduction
Ryan Hibbett, Northern Illinois University, USA

Part 1:Authorship and Authenticity
1. David Bowie's Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock's Unfinished Revolution
Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University, USA
2. Kurt, Kathleen 'n' Kathy: Cut-and-Paste and the Art of Being For Real
Patricia Malone, University of Aberdeen, UK

Part 2: Craft and Confession
3. Joni Mitchell and the Literature of Confession
David R. Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
4. Pop Star vs. Harvard Professor: The "Amateur" Poetry of Taylor Swift
Weishun Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
5. Personae Non Grata: Dramatic Monologue and Social Pathology in Select Randy Newman Songs
John Kimsey, DePaul University, USA

Part 3: Aesthetics, Movements, Technology
6. New Wave, European Avant-Gardes, and the Unmaking of Rock Music
Chris Mustazza, University of Pennsylvania, USA
7. Cycling on Acid: The Literariness of Altered Experiences in Psychedelic Rock
Tymon Adamczewski, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Part 4: Signs and Mediations
8. A Portrait of the Artist in a Pop Song: Images of James Joyce in Popular Music
Kevin Farrell, Radford University, USA
9. "Hand in Glove": Punk, Post-punk, and Poetry
Martin Malone, University of Aberdeen, UK

Part 5: Nation and Narrative
10. Under an American Spell: U2's The Joshua Tree in the Shadow of Flannery O'Connor
Scott Calhoun, Cedarville University, USA
11. Rock, Hard-Boiled: The Mekons and American Crime Fiction
Peter Hesseldenz, University of Kentucky, USA
12. When Poetry Meets Popular Music: The Case of Polish Rock Artists in the Late Twentieth Century
Marek Jezinski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Part 6: Identity and Discourse
13. "It's our version of Almost Famous": Towards a Reimagined Canon of Rock Criticism
Kimberly Mack, University of Toledo, USA
14. Limits of the Literary: Rethinking Allusions in Pop Music
Pat O'Grady, Independent Scholar, Australia

Acknowledgments
Index