Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Dying to get back home
	Dylan and Cohen
	Conclusion
Chapter 2: The road back
	Introduction
	Dylan’s road back
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Redemption men
	A secret chord that pleased the Lord: Music and divinity
	Hava Negeilah blues: The Jewish roots of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen
	Angel-headed hipsters: Spiritual experimentation in the 1960s
	Gotta serve somebody: Dylan’s born-again years
	A broken Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen and Christianity
	‘I can’t even locate a Zen idea’: Leonard Cohen and Buddhism
	‘Every breath we drew was hallelujah’: The sacred and profane
	‘These rabbis really had something going on’: The return to Judaism
	The never-ending quest: Conclusion
Chapter 4: Starting out: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, the Beat Generation and Dylan Thomas
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Masked Crusader – Bob Dylan
	‘O Make Me a Mask’: Dylan, Thomas, Cohen and the mask of fame
	The mask as transformation
	The mask as disguise: Protecting the private self from the public gaze
	The mask as revelation: The truth from behind the mask
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: The Lone Ranger – Leonard Cohen
	Introduction
	The transformative mask: From poet to pop star
	The mask as disguise
	The mask as revelation
	Conclusion
Chapter 7: Poetry and song
	What is poetry?
	Historical links between song and poetry
	Similarities and differences between poetry and song
	The centrality of music and its effect on language
	Importance of performance in song
	Democratic poetry
	Conclusion
Chapter 8: The spirit of duende
	Introduction
	The intention of the author
	Inspiration and evasion
	Duende, darkness and death
	Conclusion
Chapter 9: Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud
	Introduction
	Rimbaud and Dylan Thomas
	Lorca and Bob Dylan
	Demystifying Dylan
	The past is another country
	Plagiarism or borrowing?
	Back to Rimbaud
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Index