6. Along with his peers Leonard Cohen & Joni Mitchell, Dylan ended the long alienation between popular music & poetic ambition.
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7. The deeper questions are: what is literature? Does literature encompass songwriting? I think it does.
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8. If songwriting is literature, then Dylan, one of the great song-writers of the last century, is worthy of a Nobel.
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Anti-Dylan argument is: literature is that which is written to be read, not heard -- a prejudice against oral culture.
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Derrida's work on representation and metaphysics of presence may provide insight: in this view, literature demands representation.
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Here Derrida's analysis of Rousseau is interesting: he linked R's opposition to political rep. w/his opposition to artistic rep.
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Rousseau opposed drama as representation, arguing for festivals, pageants as art w/out representation
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One could argue that songwriters like Dylan, in tradition of troubadours & griots, produce art/literature that is present.
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Of course, Derrida's analysis is that this a metaphysics of presence, and that representation is part of all writing.
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After all, the Illiad and the Odyssey were also written to be heard.
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Marshall McLuhan & Walter Ong are good supplements to Derrida on this point -- they fill in philosophic argument with history.
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