Satan Whispers: Bob Dylan and Paradise Lost

Aidan Day

doi:10.1093/camqtly/bfq016

Satan Whispers: Bob Dylan and Paradise Lost

Aidan Day

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Abstract

Throughout his song-writing career, from a variety of interrelated perspectives, Dylan has explored the discords of a fallen world. This exploration has frequently been undertaken within religious terms deriving from the Judaism which he inherited and the Christianity which, for a number of years, he explicitly adopted. A great number of Dylan's highly allusive songs move between the bounds of these mutually implicated traditions, and this essay explores one of the principal anxieties driving that dimension of his work: a dread of being permanently alienated from the divine.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	260-280
Number of pages	21
Journal	Cambridge Quarterly
Volume	39
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfq016
Publication status	Published - Sept 2010

Keywords

God
Songwriting
Singing
Dylan, Bob

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