My impossible soul the metamodern music of Sufjan Stevens / edited by Tom Drayton, Joshua Busman, Maren Haynes Marchesini, and Greg Dember.
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | [1.]. |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Drayton, Tom http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2024027330 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2024027330. |
| Other author/creator | Busman, Joshua http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2025503193 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025503193. |
| Other author/creator | Marchesini, Maren Haynes http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2025503194 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2025503194. |
| Other author/creator | Dember, Greg http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013010755 http://id.loc.gov/rwo/agents/n2013010755. |
| Series | Studies in metamodernism: theory and criticism across the disciplines |
| Contents | "Words are Futile Devices" : An Introduction / Tom Drayton & Greg Dember -- PART I. FAITH. "I Heard a Voice in My Mind" : Sacred Self-Protagonizing and the Oscillations of American Evangelicals / Joshua K. Busman ; A Metamodern Analysis of Spirituality Through Music in Sufjan Stevens' Cover of Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells" / Libby Myers -- PART II. LOVE. "No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross" : Sufjan Stevens - in Search of (Queer) Faith / Ka Ki Samuel Wan ; "Saying It Out Loud Is Hard" : Sufjan Stevens, Queer Interpretation and Fan Reception / Heather Salus ; "Make Me an Offer I Cannot Refuse" : New Sincerity and the Hermeneutics of Platitude in Sufjan Stevens' The Ascension / Paria Rahmani -- |
| Contents | PART III. AMERICANA. America, My Beloved : "A Picture of the Scenery" in Sufjan Stevens' National Mythology / Tanya Jones ; "Christmas in July" : A Musicological Analysis of Metamodernist Impulses in Sufjan Stevens' Christmas Collections / Daniel White ; Sufjan Stevens and the Metamodern Holiday / Michael Blouin -- PART IV. DEATH. The Persistence of the "Murdering Ghost" : Sufjan Stevens and the Hauntology of (Im)Possibilities / Debakanya Haldar ; Genuflecting Ghost : Sufjan Stevens' Javelin as Metamodern Mystical Memento Mori / Joel Mayward ; Sufjan Stevens' Impossible Soul : Metamodern Intimacy, Polysubjectivity, and Plausible Deniability / Maren Haynes Marchesini. |
| Abstract | "This book is the first academic volume dedicated to the work of "canonically" metamodern multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. Contributors critically examine Stevens' output and impact across the relevant fields of musicology, literature, queer theory, performance studies, religious studies, and cultural studies. The volume provides the first international and interdisciplinary analysis of the music, lyrics, performance process and cultural impact of Sufjan Stevens, through the framework of metamodernism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025029017 |
| ISBN | 9798216365549 hardback |
| ISBN | 9798216365556 paperback |
| ISBN | |
| ISBN | epub |
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