Abstract
Abstract: This essay explores the literary resonances of the Nobel Prize committee's 2016 citation of Bob Dylan's work "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition." That "new poetic expression" has grown out of and developed through a spirit of iconoclasm and estrangement very much in the American grain, and it runs through not only the American folk "song tradition" but through the Beat Generation of writers, even as the shape-changing troubadour-poet never was, nor would he ever become a full-fledged, card-carrying Beat poet, nor a traditional poet of any sort, as he became a poet among poets on the road, finally, to becoming Bob Dylan, or rather to creating Dylan, Nobel laureate.
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