Paul Bowles - the New Generation : Essays and Criticism.

Intro -- PAUL BOWLES - THE NEW GENERATION: DO YOU BOWLES? -- CONTENTS -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Paul Bowles Now and Then: Introduction -- I THE FASCINATION OF PAUL BOWLES - FACE TO FACE SECRECIES -- Paul Bowles as I Knew Him -- "I Would Invite You to Supper but I Have Only One Egg": Teaching with Paul Bowles -- The Fascination of Paul Bowles -- II ECOLOGIES OF FEAR AND VIOLENCE: RESISTANCE OR DESISTANCE? -- The Perceptual is Political: Modes of Consciousness in The Spider's House -- Laughing with Thieves: Images of Paul Bowles in Tahar Ben Jelloun and Mohamed Choukri -- The Spider's House: Paul Bowles and the Question of Moroccan Independence -- Tangier, Capital of Treason -- False Concepts: The Absence of Security and Intimacy in the Work of Paul Bowles -- III MUSIC, NOISE AND POLITICS -- The Music and Politics of Pastorela (1941) -- Paul Bowles and Latin American Music -- "The Question of Music and Prose, It's a Tricky One to Answer," Paul Bowles: Composer - Writer -- The Musical Styles of Early Songs of Paul Bowles -- On Degenerescence and Realms of Suppression: Paul Bowles vis-à-vis Einojuhani Rautavaa -- Noise and Violence in Up Above the World - Music as Torture in Modern Fiction -- IV NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES: BOWLES, BURROUGHS AND BEYOND -- Aesthetic Tourists: The Sheltering Sky's Critique of Modernism -- American Existentialism and Surrealism in Paul Bowles's "The Scorpion" and "By the Water," Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs's And The Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks -- "What You Do Is Nearer to What You Are than What You Think Is": The Importance of Place and Space in Paul Bowles's Short Fiction -- Experiences of Death and Dissolution in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky and Jack Kerouac's Desolation Angels and The Dharma Bums -- V YOU ARE NOT I - FILM AND TEXT.

Good Film Hunting: Sara Driver, Paul Bowles, and Tangier -- A Resistant Text: "You Are Not I" -- VI ON INTERCULTURAL MEDIATIONS -- Towards an Absent Origin: The Edge of Anger in Paul Bowles's "A Distant Episode" -- The Impossible Relationship with the "Other" in "The Time of Friendship" -- VII MOMENTUM NO SPEED: FILM, BOHEMIA AND THE UNCANNY -- The Film Narrator Paul Bowles -- Gothic Short Circuits in Paul Bowles's Fiction -- Literary Friendship: The Bowleses and Tennessee Williams -- Contributors -- Index -- Appeared earlier in the DIALOGUE series -- Fantasy, Politics, Postmodernity -- Sexual Feelings -- Caribbeing -- Literature along the Lines of Flight.

The legendary author - a North-American expatriate writer and composer, and a cult figure who, according to Norman Mailer "... let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the death of the square, the end of civilization" - and his artistic output, are explored here by leading contemporary scholars.

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