David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie's music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie's oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie's work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.

Autorentext

James Rovira is a freelance writer, scholar, and poet who currently teaches at Valencia College and Keiser University. His books include Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (2019), Reading for College and Beyond (Lulu 2019, a first year writing text), Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (2018), and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (2010).

Klappentext

David Bowie and Literature:evaluates Bowie's music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie's music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie's oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie's work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.

Inhalt

"Introduction," by James Rovira.- Chapter 1, "Negative Capability in Space: The Romantic Bowieverse" by Shawna Guenther.- Chapter 2, "Rock 'N' Roll Suicide: Mortality in the Music of David Bowie" by Amrita Sarkar.- Chapter 3, "Bowie, Drug Use, and Drug Literature from the Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries" by Eric Pellerin.- Chapter 4, "The Man Who Fell from (and to) Wonderland: Visitors and Tales of Visitation in the Music and Films of David Bowie" by Tom Zlabinger.- Chapter 5, Elegance and Decadence: "The Thin White Duke, Krautrock, and Trans-European Romanticism" by Julian Knox.- Chapter 6, "Relics of the Future: Bowie's Berlin Triptych and Romanticism" by Paul S. Rowe.- Chapter 7, "Capitalist Co-optation, Romantic Resistance, and Bowie's Performance in Nicholas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth" by William Levine.- Chapter 8, "David Bowie, Romanticism, and Labyrinth" by Aglaia Venters.- Chapter 9, "'Rebel Rebel': Bowie, Gender, and the Romantic Type" by Samuel Lyndon Gladden.- Chapter 10, "Dreaming of Bowie" by David Buyze.- Chapter 11, "David Bowie's 21st Century Ars Moriendi" by Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey.