Morrissey: The Pageant of His Bleeding Heart

Finally, Morrissey's astonishing career as a writer and singer is treated with the scholarship it deserves. This is an outstanding, elegant book, of interest not only to Morrisey's fans, but to anyone interested in the literary capacity of pop music, as well as its power to enchant, seduce and unnerve - Michael Bracewell, author of England Is Mine and The Nineties: When Surface Was Depth.

CONTENIDO:

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Saving eccentricity
1. Celibacy, abstinence and rock'n'roll
I. The art of weakness
II. The glamorous turn
2. The oxymoronic self
I. Mobility
II. Multiplicity
3. The art of coyness
4. Maudlin Street
5. The light that never goes out
I. Tenebrae
II. The ultimate scandal
Epilogue: A Ticklish subject
I. Tenebrae
II. The ultimate scandal
Epilogue: A ticklish subject
I. Spectrality
II. Impossibility