David Bowie and Romanticism

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Edited by James Rovira

Type: Essays
Subject: Actor > David Bowie
Keywords: David Bowie, music
Publishing date: 2022
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Collection: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
Language: English

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Hardcover • 311 pages
6 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches (16 x 22 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-97621-7

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the Author:
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).

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