The Mirror and a Gun: Narrative Aspects of Nick Cave’s 'O’Malley’s Bar'
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https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2019.11.13Keywords:
ballad, murder ballad, Nick Cave, narrative analysis, narrator, focalizationAbstract
Considering the chosen ballad paradigmatic of Cave’s verse narration, this paper presents a close reading of the song’s lyrics that results in an analysis of narrative techniques and strategies concerning mainly the aspects of voice and perspective. Three types of narration can be recognized as systematically employed in the poem, building generically multilayered text, and pointing toward various traditions in dialog – from popular folk ballad, via Milton, Blake, Coleridge and Poe, to film and news narration.
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2021-02-13
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Miladinov, B. (2021). The Mirror and a Gun: Narrative Aspects of Nick Cave’s ’O’Malley’s Bar’. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies, 11(1), 267–287. https://doi.org/10.18485/bells.2019.11.13
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LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
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