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Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy

by Christopher K. Coffman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781478029748
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
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  • Pages: 262
  • Original Price: USD 119.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 522 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Lyrics

In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band's lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged with the literary tradition. Through an analysis of their music, lyrics, and biographies, Coffman shows how the group and its individual members drew on the canons of European and American literature to shape both the form and content of their creative work. Coffman draws on the language of the "literary fragment," as conceived by German Romantic philosophers and their intellectual heirs, to identify how the Grateful Dead's lyricists employed intertextuality, allusion, and other strategies to explore how meaning takes shape at the boundary between poetry and philosophy. From Shakespeare to "Shakedown Street," Clowns in the Burying Ground demonstrates the Dead's literary depth and how their most successful lyrics and performances walk the line between creation and chaos.

Christopher K. Coffman is Master Lecturer of Humanities at Boston University. He is the author of Rewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature and an editor of After Postmodernism: The New American Fiction and William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion.

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