Paul Bowles

Bowles, Paul - 1910–99, American writer and composer, b. New York City. He studied in Paris with Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland and composed (1930s–40s) a number of modernist operas, ballets, song cycles, and orchestral and chamber pieces. From 1947 on he lived in Tangier, Morocco. Strongly individualistic and written with an austere lack of sentimentality, his fiction is Read More...

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Paul Bowles: The Illumination of North Africa
by Lawrence D. Stewart. 178 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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1: First Light the Influence of Gertrude Stein, Two Early Short Stories, and A Distant Episode""

2: The Cold and Brilliant Morning Pages from Cold Point" and the Sheltering Sky"

3: The Hours After Noon

4: The Twilight Hour of the Storyteller the Translations, a Hundred Camels in the Courtyard, and The Time of Friendship""

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Selected Bibliography

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Paul Bowles on Music
by Paul Bowles, Irene Herrmann, Timothy Mangan. 292 pgs.

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"In this wonderfully engaging and informative collection we hear the voice of a different Paul Bowles. Writing on a wide range of subjects--jazz, film music, classical music, popular music, ethnic music--he is direct, opinionated, incisive, analytical, humorous, and passionate."--Millicent Dillon, author of "You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles

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Roth Family Foundation: Music in America Imprint

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Introduction

Notes

Articles and Reviews: 1935–1939

Articles and Reviews: 1940

Articles and Reviews: 1941

Articles and Reviews: 1942

Articles and Reviews: 1943

Articles and Reviews: 1944

Articles and Reviews: 1945

Articles and Reviews: 1946

Preface to an Interview with Paul Bowles

Interview: June 6, 1999

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On Translating Paul (and Jane and Mrabet), in Journal of Modern Literature
by Claude Nathalie Thomas. 10 pgs.

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African Settings in Contemporary American Novels (includes "Paul Bowles: Lost and Found in North Africa: The Sheltering Sky, Let It Come Down, and The Spider's House")
by Dave Kuhne. 156 pgs.

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British and American novels written before World War II established popular conventions and stereotypes about Africa that have been increasingly challenged by contemporary American novels set in Africa. Kuhne's book argues that these recent American novels with African settings are largely didactic, that they convey specific lessons about Africa and Africans, and that they compare African and American cultures to evaluate and critique the two worlds. After a summary of how British and American writers have traditionally depicted Africa, Kuhne looks at such topics as contemporary American novels set in invented African nations, the African novels of African American authors, genre fiction set in Africa, and postcolonial novels with African settings.

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Recent Titles In Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

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Preface

Chapter 1 Africa: What Place is This?

Chapter 2 Antecedents: African Settings In British and American Fiction Before World War II

Chapter 3 Filling in the Blank Space: Contemporary American Novels Set in Invented African Nations

Chapter 4 Black on Black: African-American Novels With African Settings

Chapter 5 Genre Africa

Chapter 6 Africa: Postmodern, Postcolonial, and "Other" Wise

Chapter 7 Conclusions: Africa--A Continent of Words

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About the Author
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After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars (includes "Paul Bowles: The Canceled Sky")
by John W. Aldridge. 268 pgs.

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Part I: The Lost Generation

Chapter I: Disillusion and Separate Peace

Chapter II: Exile

Chapter III: Hemingway Nightmare and the Correlative of Loss

Chapter IV: Fitzgerald The Horror and the Vision of Paradise

Chapter V: Dos Passos The Energy of Despair

Part II: The New Writers of the Forties

Chapter VI: The Search for Values

Chapter VII: The Neo-Hemingways and the Failure of Protest

Chapter VIII: Vance Bourjaily The Two Worlds of Skinner Galt

Chapter IX: Mailer, Burns, and Shaw The Naked Zero

Chapter X: Merle Miller Journalist of Sham

Chapter XI: Gore Vidal The Search for a King

Chapter XII: Paul Bowles The Canceled Sky

Chapter XIII: Capote and Buechner The Escape into Otherness

Chapter XIV: The Young Writer in America

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In My Opinion: An Inquiry into the Contemporary Novel
by Orville Prescott. 262 pgs.

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Introduction

I: "In Time of 'the Breaking of Nations'"

II: Warren, Orwell, Koestler

III: Wright, Motley, Wolff, Betty Smith

IV: Squandered Talents: Lewis, Steinbeck, Hemingway, O'Hara

V: Mann, Faulkner

VI: Henry Green, Compton-Burnett, Bowen, Graham Greene

VII: Capote, Bowles, Buechner, Goyen, Williams, Yorke

VIII: Sensational or Inspirational

IX: Richter, Guthrie

X: Hersey, Michener, Mailer, Jones, Baron, Wouk

XI: Satirists:

XII: Two Modern Masters:

XIII: Godden, Winslow, Wickenden

XIV: God Save the Irish

XV: Four Great Novels

XVI: The Art and Meaning of Fiction

Appendix: Some Notable Historical Novels
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Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades (includes "Paul Bowles: The Pilgrim as Prey")
by Ihab Hassan. 268 pgs.

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Part One:: Early Appraisals (1954-1963)

One: Paul Bowles: The Pilgrim as Prey

Two: Jean Stafford: The Expense of Style And Scope of Sensibility

Three: William Burroughs: The Subtracting Machine

Part Two:: Literary Themes and Genres (1959-1984)

Four: The Antihero In Modern British And American Fiction

Five: Cities of Mind, Urban Words

Six: Timely Pleasures: Sane and In-Sane

Part Three:: Perspectives on Postmodernism (1975-1989)

Seven: Joyce, Beckett, And The Postmodern Imagination

Eight: Imagination and Belief: Wallace Stevens And William James

Nine: Beyond Postmodernism? Theory, Sense, and Pragmatism

Epilogue

Part Four:: Criticism and Theory (1989-1994)

Ten: Fictions of Power: Ideological Discourse In the Humanities

Eleven: Confessions of a Reluctant Critic Or, the Resistance to Literature

Twelve: Criticism in Our Clime: Parables of American Academe

Epilogue

Part Five:: Travel, Autobiography, Geopolitics (1988-1994)

Thirteen: The Spirit of Quest In Contemporary American Letters

Fourteen: Motion and Mischief: Contemporary British Travel Writing

Fifteen: Japan and the United States: The Burden of Mutual Perception

Envoy:: Without Exile: A Postcolonial Intellectual Abroad

Acknowledgments

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About the Author
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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Periodicals Represented

Adams, Henry (1838-1918)

Agee, James (1909-1955)

Aiken, Conrad (1889- )

Algren, Nelson (1909- )

Anderson, Maxwell (1888-1959)

Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Auchincloss, Louis (1917- )

Auden, W. H. (1907-)

Babbitt, Irving (1865-1933)

Baldwin, James (1924- )

Barnes, Djuna (1900- )

Barry, Philip (1896-1949)

Behrman, S. N. (1893- )

Bellow, Saul (1915- )

BenÉT, Stephen Vincent (1898-1943)

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)

Bishop, Elizabeth (1911- )

Bishop, John Peale (1892-1944)

Blackmur, Richard (1904- )

Bodenheim, Maxwell (1893-1954)

Bogan, Louise (1897- )

Bowles, Paul (1910- )

Brooks, Cleanth (1906- )

Brooks, Van Wyck (1886- )

Buck, Pearl (1892- )

Burke, Kenneth (1897-)

Burns, John Horne (1916-1953)

Cabell, James Branch (1879-)

Caldwell, Erskine (1903- )

Capote, Truman (1924- )

Cather, Willa (1873-1947)

Ciardi, John (1916-)

Clark, Walter Van Tilburg (1908- )

Cowley, Nalcolm (1898- )

Cozzens, James Gould (1903- )

Crane, Hart (1899-1932)

Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)

Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)

Cummings, Edward Estlin (1894- )

Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)

Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) (1886- )

Dos Passos, John (1896- )

Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945)

Eberhart, Richard (1904-)

Edmonds, Walter

Eliot, T. S. (1888- )

Ellison, Ralph (1914- )

Farrell, James Thomas (1904- )

Fast, Howard (1904- )

Faulkner, William (1897- )

Fearing, Kenneth (1902- )

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (1879-1958)

Fisher, Vardis (1895- )

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)

Fitzgerald, Robert (1910- )

Fletcher, John Gould (1886-1950)

Fowlie, Wallace (1908- )

Frost, Robert (1875- )

Garrigue, Jean (1914- )

Ginsberg, Allen (1926- )

Glasgow, Ellen (1874-1945)

Gold, Herbert (1924- )

Goyen, William (1918- )

Gregory, Horace (1898- )

Guthrie A. B., Jr. (1901- )

Hayes, Alfred (1911- )

Hearn, Lafcadio (1850-1904)

Hellman, Lillian (1905- )

Hemingway, Ernest (1898- )

Hersey, John (1914- )

Howard, Sidney (1891-1939)

Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)

Hughes, Langston (1902- )

Inge, William (1913- )

Jackson, Shirley (1919- )

James, Henry (1843-1916)

Jarell, Randall (1914- )

Jeffers, Robinson (1887- )

Kantor, Mackinlay (1904- )

Kerouac, Jack (1922- )

Kingsley, Sidney (1906- )

Kreymborg, Alfred (1883- )

Kunitz, Stanley (1905- )

Lardner, Ring (1885-1933)

Levin, Meyer (1905- )

Lewis, Sinclair (1885-1951)

Lewisohn, Ludwig (1882-1956)

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

London, Jack (1876-1916)

Lowell, Amy (1874-1925)

Lowell, Robert (1917- )

Mccarthy, Mary (1912- )

Mccullers, Carson (1917- )

Macleish, Archibald (1892- )

Mailer, Norman (1923- )

Malamud, Bernard (1914- )

Marquand, John P. (1893- )

Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)

Mencken, H. L. (1880-1950)

Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)

Miller, Arthur (1915- )

Miller, Henry (1891- )

Moody, William Vaughan (1869-1910)

Moore, Marianne (1887- )

Moore, Merrill (1903-1957)

Morris, Wright (1910- )

Nln, Anais (1903- )

Norris, Frank (1870-1902)

O'Connor, Flannery (1926- )

Odets, Clifford (1906- )

O'Neill, Eugene (1888-1953)

Parker, Dorothy (1893- )

Patchen, Kenneth (1911- )

Porter Katherine Anne (1894- )

Pound, Ezra (1885- )

Ransom, John Crowe (1888- )

Rexroth, Kenneth (1905- )

Rice, Elmer (1892- )

Richter, Conrad (1890- )

Roberts, Elizabeth Madox (1886-1941)

Roberts, Kenneth (1885-1957)

Roethke, Theodore (1908- )

Rukeyser, Muriel (1913- )

Salinger, J. D. (1919- )

Sandburg, Carl (1878- )

Santayana, George (1863-1952)

Saroyan, William (1908- )

Sarton, May (1912- )

Schulberg, Budd (1914- )

Schwartz, Delmore (1913- )

Scott, Winfield Townley (1910- )

Shapiro, Karl (1913- )

Shaw, Irwin (1913- )

Sherwood, Robert (1896-1855)

Sinclair, Upton (1878- )

Stafford, Jean (1915- )

Stegner, Wallace (1909- )

Steinbeck, John (1902- )

Styron, William (1925- )

Tate, Allen (1899- )

Taylor, Peter (1917- )

Thurber, James (1894- )

Trilling, Lionel (1905- )

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

Van Doren, Mark (1894- )

Van Druten, John (1901-1957)

Viereck, Peter (1919- )

Warren, Robert Penn (1905- )

Welty, Eudora (1909- )

Wescott, Glenway (1901- )

West, Nathanael (1906-1940)

Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)

Wheelock, John (1886- )

Wheelwright, John Brooks (1897-1940)

Wilbur, Richard (1921- )

Wilder, Thornton (1897- )

Williams, Tennessee (1914- )

Wilson, Edmund (1895- )

Winters, Yvor (1900)

Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938)

Wright, Richard (1908- )
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Mohammed Mrabet's Fiction of Alienation, in World Literature Today
by Ibrahim Dawood. 4 pgs.

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The Legend of Jane Bowles: Stories of the Female Avant-Garde, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language (includes information on her husband Paul Bowles)
by Jennie Skerl. 18 pgs.

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