Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters

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“Very few books on Bob Dylan are as original, thoughtful and wide-ranging as this. A real achievement.” —Michael Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia   "Goss explores the complex relationships between ageing, creativity, and cultural survival.…The result is an original, engaging, and exceptionally well-written book… I highly recommend Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters to all readers with an interest in art and culture.” —Anne-Marie Mai, University of Southern Denmark   “Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters joins an expanding field of Late Dylan studies… Goss’s richly informed… study takes the discussion in new directions. Set within a solid theoretical framework…this reflection brings Dylan and his overlife wittily and fruitfully into ‘aesthetic encounter’ with Goya, Hopper, and Yeats, to name but a few. A must-read for any serious Dylan fan.”   — Adrian Grafe, Arras, France.   “Deeply moving and intellectually expansive... Goss’s book rivets the heart and the mind with her incisive analyses of songs that complicate common assumptions about late style and the late age creativity of artists across a spectrum of comparative genres… —Dr. Robert Reginio, Alfred University, New York   Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters: Outliving Life focuses on Bob Dylan’s long late period and considers other late style virtuosos to raise the stakes of engaging with age and art. Late-style criticism valorizes excess, difficulty, and resistance in the works of older artists. This book explores ‘sensational’ late style across topics including the temporality of ‘overliving,’ ambiguous immortalities, and historical consciousness. The book also uses Dylan’s ironworks and The Philosophy of Modern Song <(2020), to illustrate divergence in late-style character. Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters argues for a vital experience of presence in close encounters with strong late art. —Nina Goss, PhD is an adjunct professor at Fordham University, New York. She co-edited and contributed to Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century (2017).

Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters: Outliving Life focuses on Bob Dylan’s decades-long late period, and considers other late style virtuosos such as Goya, Yeats, and Louise Bourgeois, to raise the stakes of engaging with age and strong art. Late-style criticism has posited a special potency in artists who have flourished in advanced age: a potency of excess, difficulty, and resistance. This book explores the richness of ‘sensational’ late style across topics such as the temporality of ‘overliving,’ ambiguous immortalities, the ethos of Dylan’s signature collage/bricolage method of composition, and late-style historical consciousness. The book uses Dylan’s ironworks and the unclassifiable 2020 publication, The Philosophy of Modern Song, to illustrate divergence in late-style character. Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters argues for a vital experience of presence in close encounters with strong late art.

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Nina Goss

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“Very few books on Bob Dylan are as original, thoughtful and wide-ranging as this. A real achievement.” (Michael Gray, The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia)

“Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters joins an expanding field of Late Dylan studies (21st-Century Dylan: Late and Timely; Dylan at 80: It Used To Go Like That, And Now It Goes Like This). Nina Goss’s richly informed and canny-cum-candid study takes the discussion in new directions by pairing Dylan with other artists in their later creative endeavours. Set within a solid theoretical framework—Said, of course, but also Lacayo and many others—this reflection by distinguished Dylan specialist Goss brings Dylan and his overlife wittily and fruitfully into ‘aesthetic encounter’ with Goya and Hopper, Milosz and Yeats, to name but a few. A must-read for any serious Dylan fan.” (Adrian Grafe, Arras, France, coeditor of “21st-Century Dylan: Late and Timely” (2021), and author of “The Ravens of Vienna” (2022))

“With Bob Dylan as its central figure, Professor Nina Goss explores the complex relationships between ageing, creativity, and cultural survival. Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters brings together Dylan studies, age studies, and cultural theory in an innovative analysis of the ageing artist and the concepts that surround late style. The result is an original, engaging, and exceptionally well-written book about the afterlife of art beyond youth, and about the many ways in which artists continue to create, transform, and surprise. I highly recommend Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters to all readers with an interest in art and culture.” (Anne-Marie Mai, Humanities Faculty, Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark, author Bob Dylan the Poet (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2018))

“With Bob Dylan and Other Late Style Encounters, Nina Goss reaffirms her standing as one of the most vital critics of Bob Dylan’s songcraft writing today. Deeply moving and intellectually expansive in equal measure, Goss’s book rivets the heart and the mind to her incisive analyses of songs that complicate common assumptions about late style and the late age creativity of artists across a spectrum of comparative genres. Each beautifully wrought sentence in this book bursts with provocative reevaluations not only of Dylan’s late style, but what his late style can tell us about the paradox of creation in the limbo state of overliving life, of witnessing one’s own obsolescence and yet, as Samuel Beckett would say, carrying on. Expressing her considerable erudition deftly, Goss convincingly describes a late style poetics that is not a purely tragic condition but a wellspring of obdurate creation and critical reassessment. Brimming with pathbreaking conceptual formulations for understanding Dylan’s late style, this is a masterful study that will serve as a core text for thinking through Dylan’s uncannily still-ongoing creative life.” (Dr. Robert Reginio, Professor of English at Alfred University and author of “Bob Dylan Outside the Law: The Poetics of John Wesley Harding” (Palgrave Macmillan 2025))

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