{"product_id":"the-art-of-nick-cave-new-critical-essays-9781841506272","title":"The Art of Nick Cave: New Critical Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array of disciplines, consider Cave's work from many different angles, drawing on historical, psychological, pedagogical, and generic perspectives. Illuminating the remarkable scope of Cave's achievements, they explore his career as a composer of film scores, scriptwriter, and performer, most strikingly in \u003cem\u003eGhosts of the Civil Dead\u003c\/em\u003e; his work in theatre; and his literary output, which includes the novels \u003cem\u003eAnd the Ass Saw the Angel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Death of Bunny Munro\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as two collections of prose. Together, the resulting essays provide a lucid overview of Nick Cave's work that will orient students and fans while offering fresh insights sure to deepen even expert perspectives.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Nick Cave, Twenty-First Century Man – John H. Baker\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePART I: Cave, the Songwriter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1: ‘Into My Arms’: Themes of Desire and Spirituality in The Boatman’s Call – Peter Billingham\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2: The Performance of Voice: Nick Cave and the Dialectic of Abandonment – Carl Lavery\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3: ‘The College Professor Says It’: Using Nick Cave’s Lyrics in the University Classroom – Paul Lumsden\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4: A Beautiful, Evil Thing: The Music of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – David Pattie\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePART II: Murder Ballads\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: ‘Executioner-Style’: Nick Cave and the Murder Ballad Tradition – Nick Groom\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 6: In Praise of Flat-out Meanness: Nick Cave’s ‘Stagger Lee’ – Dan Rose\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePART III: Film and Theatre \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 7: ‘You Won’t Want the Moment to End’: Nick Cave in the Theatre, from King Ink to Collaborating with Vesturport – Karoline Gritzner\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 8: Welcome to Hell: Nick Cave and Ghosts … of the Civil Dead – Rebecca Johinke\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 9: ‘People Just Ain’t No Good’: Nick Cave’s Noir Western, The Proposition – William Verrone\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePART IV: Influences \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 10: Nick Cave and Gothic: Ghost Stories, Fucked Organs, Spectral Liturgy – Isabella van Elferen\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 11: The Singer and the Song: Nick Cave and the Archetypal Function of the Cover Version – Nathan Wiseman-Trowse\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 12: Nick Cave: The Spirit of the Duende and the Sound of the Rent Heart – Sarah Wishart\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cstrong\u003ePART V: Sacred and Profane \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 13: ‘There is a Kingdom’: Nick Cave, Christian Artist? – John H. Baker\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 14: ‘The Time of Our Great Undoing’: Love, Madness, Catastrophe and the Secret Afterlife of Romanticism in Nick Cave’s Love Songs – Steven Barfield Chapter 15: From ‘Cute Cunts’ to ‘No Pussy’: Sexuality, Sovereignty and the Sacred – Fred Botting\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042927313239,"sku":"9781841506272","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781841506272.jpg?v=1750956261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-art-of-nick-cave-new-critical-essays-9781841506272","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}