英语文学Dissertation案例：Nick Cave 

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本dissertation分析了Nick Cave歌词中的信仰，自我，以及忧郁

Faith, Selfhood and the Blues in the Lyrics of Nick Cave

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Abstract

So runs the epigraph, taken from the Biblical book of Job, to the Australian songwriter Nick Cave’s collected lyrics.1 Using such a quotation invites anyone who listens to Cave’s songs to see them as instructive addresses, a feeling compounded by an on-record intensity matched by few in the history of popular music. From his earliest work in the late 1970s with his bands The Boys Next Door and The Birthday Party up to his most recent releases with longtime collaborators The Bad Seeds, it appears that he is intent on spreading some sort of message.

This essay charts how Cave’s songs, which as Robert Eaglestone notes take religion as ‘a primary discourse that structures and shapes others’,2 consistently use the blues as a platform from which to deliver his dispatches. The first chapter draws particularly on recent writing by Andrew Warnes and Adam Gussow to elucidate why Cave’s earlier songs have the blues and his Christian faith dovetailing so frequently. Though Gussow deals mainly with the blues of the Depression-era American South, and Warnes with its structural impact on British rather than Australian rock music, the tropes that they identify are ultimately applicable ‘wherever [the blues] becomes felt’3 and Cave draws upon them frequently.

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