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Paul McCartney's Song Lyrics: Literary Auto-Reflexivity

Author(s): Kalina Zahova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Theory of Literature
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: popular music; song lyrics; auto-reflexivity; literariness; polysemy; intertextuality

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents certain contemporary observations by Paul McCartney on his own song lyrics written during his creative periods with The Beatles, Wings, as a solo artist, and in collaboration with other artists. The article traces the relations between specificity and openness of the interpretation, as well as the deliberate and spontaneously originated polysemy. Paul McCartney's autoreflexivity is examined not only as a form of autobiographicality, which it inevitably is, but also as a manifestation of various aspects of literariness.

  • Issue Year: II/2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 364-378
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bulgarian
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