Book contents
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- 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
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Paul BowlesIn the American Grain, pp. xi - xiiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020