David Bowie and romanticism / James Rovira, editor.

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowies 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 Bowies music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Palgrave studies in music and literature.
Other Authors: Rovira, James (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Palgrave studies in music and literature.
Subjects:
Bowie, David > Criticism and interpretation.
Romanticism > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Influence.
Bowie, David.
Romanticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xiii, 298 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: David Bowie and Romanticism
  • 2. David Bowie and Romantic Androgyny
  • 3. Negative Capability in Space: The Romantic Bowieverse
  • 4. Drug Use and Drug Literature from the Eighteenth Century to David Bowie
  • 5. Capitalist Co-optation, Romantic Resistance, and Bowies Allegorical Performance in Nicolas Roegs The Man Who Fell to Earth
  • 6. Too Late to Be Late Again: David Bowie, the Late 1970s, and Romanticism
  • 7. Relics of The Future: The Melancholic Romanticism of Bowie's Berlin Triptych
  • 8. "Rebel Rebel" : Bowie as Romantic "Type"
  • 9. The Goblin King, Absurdity, and Nonbinary Thinking
  • 10. 1. Outside as Bowie's Gothic Technodrama: Fascism and the Irrational Near the Turn of the Millennia
  • 11. "Blackstar" David Bowie's Twenty-First-Century Ars Moriendi.