Introduction /Kevin J.H. Dettmar --Part I. Perspectives --1.Bob Dylan and the Anglo-American tradition /David Yaffe --2."Bob Dylan and Rolling Thunder" /Michael Denning --3.Bob Dylan as song writer /Anthony Decurtis --4.Bob Dylan as performer /Alan Light --5.Bob Dylan and collaboration /Martin Jacobi --6.Bob Dylan and gender politics /Barbara O'Dair --7.Bob Dylan and religion /R. Clifton Spargo and Anne K. Ream --8.Bob Dylan and the academy /Lee Marshall --9.Bob Dylan as cultural icon /David R. Shumway --Part II. Landmark albums --10.The freewheelin' Bob Dylan(1963) /Eric Bulson --11.Bringing it all back home(1965) /Jean Tamarin --12.Highway 61 revisited(1965) /Robert Polito --13.Blonde on blonde(1966) /Michael Coyle and Debra Rae Cohen --14.The basement tapes(1967; 1975) /Alex Abramovich --15.Blood on the tracks(1975) /Carrie Brownstein --16.Infidels(1983) /Jonathan Lethem --17."Love and theft"(2001) /Eric Lott.