{"product_id":"clowns-in-the-burying-ground-the-grateful-dead-literature-and-the-limits-of-philosophy-paperback","title":"Clowns in the Burying Ground: The Grateful Dead, Literature, and the Limits of Philosophy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher K. Coffman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eClowns in the Burying Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, Christopher K. Coffman presents intertextual readings of the Grateful Dead and their lyrics to argue that the band's lyricists were deeply and significantly engaged with the literary tradition. Through an analysis of their music, lyrics, and biographies, Coffman shows how the group and its individual members drew on the canons of European and American literature to shape both the form and content of their creative work. Coffman draws on the language of the \"literary fragment,\" as conceived by German Romantic philosophers and their intellectual heirs, to identify how the Grateful Dead's lyricists employed intertextuality, allusion, and other strategies to explore how meaning takes shape at the boundary between poetry and philosophy. From Shakespeare to \"Shakedown Street,\" \u003ci\u003eClowns in the Burying Ground\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the Dead's literary depth and how their most successful lyrics and performances walk the line between creation and chaos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher K. Coffman is Master Lecturer of Humanities at Boston University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and an editor of \u003ci\u003eAfter Postmodernism: The New American Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWilliam T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 262\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337041764717,"sku":"9781478033202","price":55.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/HNRiIC45CZ9781478033202.webp?v=1778922906","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/clowns-in-the-burying-ground-the-grateful-dead-literature-and-the-limits-of-philosophy-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}