https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-lecture.html
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech.html
An interesting study was published in 2010, ‘Bob Dylan Lyrics versus the Academics’. Frank Bond provides a critical look into the most prominent academic approaches to Dylan’s lyrics, and subsequently proposes a more productive and adequate analysis which also incorporates the musical elements of Dylan’s song lyrics.