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"Any one curious as to why Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature is well advised to read Graley Herren’s indispensable guide to Dylan’s 1997 album Time Out of Mind. Time Out of Mind deserves several, though it’s hard to imagine a better one than this, a work of serious literary criticism illuminating a seminal album- Dylan 'getting back in and fighting way out of a corner' as he put it-from perhaps the richest vein of the artist’s work, his brilliant and often neglected or shortchanged work from the past 25 years." - Kevin Barents, Professor, Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University, US "Almost every Dylan album deserves its own book. His journey into the lyrical genius of Dylan brings to the surface thoughtful and cultural relevant dialogues around violence, race and the liminal space between salvation and damnation." - Katherine Weiss, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, California State University, Los Angeles, US "Graley Herren delves into Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind, an album whose songs are made up of dreamscapes. Robert Reginio, Professor, Division of English, Alfred University, US Multifaceted, this brilliant study shines a much-needed light on Dylan's prismatic, hybrid late style. "Under Graley Herren's expert analyses, the songs on Time Out Of Mind do not stand as merely timeless, but drenched in time, echoing against one another to reveal their resilience and profound timeliness. The arguments put forth in the book will fundamentally alter our understanding of Time Out of Mind. The three distinct but intertwined interpretations of the songs recorded for the album-as murder ballads, as religious allegory, and as “race record”-are highly original and provocative. Time Out of Mind is an innovative and rigorously researched book, geared toward inspiring future scholarship. On still another level, Time Out of Mind is a meditation on American slavery and racism, Dylan’s most personal encounter with the subject, but one tangled up in the minstrelsy tradition and other white appropriations of black experiences. On another level, the album is a religious allegory, dramatizing the protagonist’s relentless struggles with his lover as a battle between spirit and flesh, earth and heaven, salvation and damnation.
On one level, Time Out of Mind is Dylan’s intimate portrait of a killer, a series of murder ballads drawn from the memories, dreams, and fantasies of a condemned man awaiting execution for killing his lover. This book seeks to remedy that by excavating three distinct levels of meaning at work in the songs recorded for the album. Despite winning a number of accolades, Time Out of Mind has been largely misunderstood and underestimated. This album marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning point toward his late renaissance in terms of both subject matter and intertextual approach. Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan’s artistic career.