’Renaissance’ in storytelling: Swift’s complex imagery taps into ’literary culture across centuries’

Following an earth-shattering concert tour spanning the globe, and highlighting nearly two decades of musical artistry that integrates “complex and sophisticated“ storytelling, Taylor Swift has reached her prime. And now it’s her TIME. Youthful and vibrant as ever, and wise beyond her years, Swift has been proclaimed the 5th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine. And along the way she has now reached another new milestone: the first-ever individual entertainer to be knighted TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year. According to TIME’s youthful and vibrant Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs, Swift “represents joy and brings light to the world.“ And so as we take a critical and literary look at the culture, music and storytelling of Taylor Swift, FRANCE 24’s Mark Owen is joined by the “swiftieprof“ of the academic world: Dr. Elizabeth Scala, Perceval Professor of Medieval Romance, Historiography & Culture at the University of Texas, Austin straight from the &qu