BOB DYLAN
AND OTHER LATE STYLE ENCOUNTERS

   - OUTLIVING LIFE. The book 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.

   By Nina Goss, Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature, Palgrave Macmillan 2026, 178 pages, hardcover.
ISBN 9783032386595.

Thank you to Knut Högvall for this item. [0926]

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