| Description |
1 online resource (235 p.) |
| Series |
Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser |
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Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Paul Bowles as a Canonical Writer -- 1: Paul Bowles on Intercultural Understanding: Too Far from Home -- 2: The Discovery of Existence: Without Stopping -- 3: Emersonian Shadows -- 4: Culture and Existence in Bowles' Short Fiction -- 5: Gide and Bowles in North Africa: The Sheltering Sky -- 6: Language, Noise, Silence: Self and Society in Let It Come Down -- 7: The Spider's House: The Social Construction of Reality -- 8: Existence and Imagination: Up Above the World -- 9: The Letters: In Touch |
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Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781787449299 |
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1787449297 |
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