Leonard Cohen’s Lives in Art: The Story of the Artist in His Novels, Poems and Song

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Title
Leonard Cohen’s Lives in Art: The Story of the Artist in His Novels, Poems and Song
Abstract
The author argues that the concerns of the “artist-figure” are a central issue in the work of Leonard Cohen (1934-2016). He maintains that Cohen's novels, poems, and songs, seen as a whole, form a portrait-of-the-artist. The author asserts that Cohen's artist-figure endeavours both to make art and to self-create, and this creative impulse is simultaneously propelled and hindered by the romantic-love relationship, by the demands of an artist's role in the public sphere, by the aesthetic requirements of art itself, and by spiritual and religious issues.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
1996
# of Pages
iii-132p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Hill, Colin. “Leonard Cohen’s Lives in Art: The Story of the Artist in His Novels, Poems and Song.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/-?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26737&silo_library=GEN01.
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