Table of Contents Acknowledgments v "Songs for Passersby" by James M. Curtis vi Preface 1 Introduction 4 Section I: Theories and Practices 1. Bob Dylan: His Biography and His Career 7 2. The Early Years in New York 27 3. Affinities with Franz Kafka, T.S. Eliot and Pablo Picasso 51 Section II: Songs and Songwriting 4. Songs of Transcendence--Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde 73 Table 1.

Chronology of Songs 74 Table 2. Night Songs 87 5. Songs of Assimilation--John Wesley Harding and Nashville Skyline 95 6. "Putting a Certain Orderliness to the Chaos" 103 Table 3. Rhyme Forms in Dylan's Songs of the Early 1960s 106 Table 4. Rhyme Forms in Dylan's Songs of the Late 1960s 107 Table 5. Examples of Triple Rhymes in Tin Pan Alley Songs 112 Table 6. Triple Rhymes or More in Some American Songs (1968-1984) 114 7.

Dylan and Springsteen 118 8. The Real Revolution of the 1960s 129 Table 7. Chronologies of Early Successes of Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen by Approximate Age 133 Conclusion: Dylan's Paradoxes 148 Chapter Notes 151 Bibliography 157 Index 161.