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The Demons of Leonard Cohen - (Canadian Studies) by Francis Mus (Paperback)

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  • "With my jingle in your brain, Allow the Bridge to arch again"How are we to understand Leonard Cohen's plea?
  • About the Author: Francis Mus (1983) est chercheur à l'Université d'Anvers (Belgique).
  • 208 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Music
  • Series Name: Canadian Studies

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About the Book



'With my jingle in your brain, allow the Bridge to arch again'. How are we to understand Leonard Cohen's plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? Francis Mus considers the different guises or 'demons' that the Canadian singer-songwriter assumes.



Book Synopsis



"With my jingle in your brain,
Allow the Bridge to arch again"

How are we to understand Leonard Cohen's plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? In search of an answer to this question this study considers the different guises or "demons" that the Canadian singer-songwriter adopts.

The countless roles assumed by Cohen's personas are not some innocent game, but strategies in response to the sometimes conflicting demands of a "life in art" they serve as masks that represent the performer's face and state of mind in a heightened yet detached way. In and around the artistic work they are embodied by different guises and demons: image (the poser), artistry (the writer and singer), alienation (the stranger and the confidant), religion (the worshipper, prophet, and priest), and power (the powerful and powerless). Ultimately, Cohen's artistic practice can be read as an attempt at forging interpersonal contact.

The wide international circulation of Cohen's work has resulted in a partial severing with the context of its creation. Much of it has filtered through the public image forged by the artist and his critics in concerts, interviews, and reflective texts. Less a biography than a reception study--supplemented with extensive archival research, unpublished documents, and interviews with colleagues and privileged witnesses--it sheds new light on the dynamic of a comprehensive body of work spanning a period of sixty years.



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Cohen is turning into a "secular saint," as Brian Trehearne, the McGill professor, points out in his foreword to Francis Mus's The Demons of Leonard Cohen. A large part of Mus's project is teasing out significance from a vast genre of ephemera, such as album covers and minor sketches, but the book is broadly a study of Cohen's personas -- what Mus, who teaches at the University of Antwerp, refers to as his "demons"-- as well as how audiences have received these poses.
(...)
Mus helps us to think about how the grandiosity of Cohen's claims to grace managed not to fall flat because of his persistent irony about himself and his poses.

(https: //reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2021/09/in-the-human-frame/)

--Jessica Duffin Wolfe "Literary Review of Canada"



About the Author



Francis Mus (1983) est chercheur à l'Université d'Anvers (Belgique). En 2015, Francis Mus a publié en néerlandais une monographie sur Leonard Cohen, qui a gagné le Prix littéraire de la Province de Flandre orientale. Par ailleurs, il a donné de nombreuses conférences sur l'oeuvre de Leonard Cohen et a consacré à ce sujet de nombreuses publications académiques incluant un des chapitres de l'ouvrage collectif primé, intitulé Les révolutions de Leonard Cohen (2016).
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .74 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.09 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Series Title: Canadian Studies
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Music
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Francis Mus
Language: English
Street Date: August 25, 2020
TCIN: 84128486
UPC: 9780776631202
Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-9165
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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