Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

The ‘Thing’ About Bob Dylan

Tymon Adamczewski

GEOGRAPHIES

Bob Dylan’s Minnesota Roots

David Pichaske

At the Origins of the New Folk Star: Bob Dylan’s New York period (1961-1963)

Marek Jeziński

Dylan on Nostalgia: Idealising the Past and Paralysing the Present

Stephen Dewsbury

RECEPTIONS

Bob Dylan and the Invasion of Mexico

Tadeusz Rachwał

Conspiring to be Unknown; or, Is a Bob Dylan There?

Agnieszka Pantuchowicz

Bob Dylan – The Unwilling Icon of the Counterculture

Jerzy Jarniewicz

The Polish Internet Discourse on Dylan

Marcin Michalak

PERSPECTIVES

The Dylanesque Confluence of the Multitude: From Bob Dylan Inspired to Bob Dylan the Inspirer

Dariusz Pestka

Dylan and Springsteen: Master and Follower Look at America

Bohdan Szklarski

Bob Dylan's Character(s) on Screen

Marlena Hetman

The Geometry of Love and Lies: Re-Shaping Italian Literature through Dylan’s Lyrics

Giulio Carlo Pantalei

About the Author

Tymon Adamczewski, Ph.D., is assistant professor at the Department of Anglophone Literatures of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, where he teaches literary and cultural studies. His academic interests revolve around the critical discourses of contemporary humanities, music and ecocriticism.