The demons of Leonard Cohen / Francis Mus ; with a foreword by Brian Trehearne.
"Who speaks in Leonard Cohen's oeuvre? By identifying the many guises in which Cohen presents himself to his audience, Francis Mus seeks to formulate an answer to this question. The countless roles assumed by Cohen's persona are not some innocent game, but strategies in response to th...
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| Other title: | Demonen van Leonard Cohen. English. |
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Ottawa, Ontario :
Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa = University of Ottawa Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Etudes canadiennes.
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Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION Leonard Cohen, who are you?
- 1. IMAGE On the self-representation in the music
- 2. ARTISTRY On the relationship between maker, work, and audience
- 3. ALIENATION From local embeddedness and global exile to universal aspirations and back again
- INTERMEZZO 1. "ANOTHER VOCABULARY" A writer in search of his language (1): Case study of an unpublished short story
- INTERMEZZO 2. "DON'T FOLLOW THE STORY, FOLLOW THE EMOTION" A writer in search of his language (2): The international reception of Beautiful Losers
- 4. RELIGION How the priest, prophet, and believer serve artistic expression
- 5. POWER Artistic personas caught between vulnerability and authority
- INTERMEZZO 3. "EVERYONE MUST FALL" 195 Freedom as consciousness: About longing and loss
- 6. ENCOUNTER "The only song I ever had"
- APPENDIX À tout prendre [Take it all] - Leonard Cohen, Claude Jutra, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.