UID:
almahu_9949701532002882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 383 pages)
ISBN:
9789401211901
Series Statement:
Dialogue ; 18
Content:
This volume includes twenty-five interdisciplinary essays on Paul Bowles's literary and musical work. 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. They seek alternative and multiple perspectives of his work through the dynamics of music and literature, avant-garde film and the No wave scene, torture studies and security, Islamic studies, modernism and surrealism. Following the international conference "Do You Bowles?" held in Lisbon, in 2010, which celebrated Paul Bowles's 100th birthday, this collection shows how Bowles's work engages creatively with his predecessors and a variety of perspectives, by rethinking modes of consciousness and of artistic and cross-cultural potential that still inspire todays' artists and scholars, both as a writer as well as a composer. The editor set up a webpage dedicated to the book: http://www.doyoubowles.org/
Note:
Preliminary material /
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PAUL BOWLES NOW AND THEN: INTRODUCTION /
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PAUL BOWLES AS I KNEW HIM /
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"I WOULD INVITE YOU TO SUPPER BUT I HAVE ONLY ONE EGG": TEACHING WITH PAUL BOWLES /
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THE FASCINATION OF PAUL BOWLES /
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THE PERCEPTUAL IS POLITICAL: MODES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE SPIDER'S HOUSE /
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LAUGHING WITH THIEVES: IMAGES OF PAUL BOWLES IN TAHAR BEN JELLOUN AND MOHAMED CHOUKRI /
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THE SPIDER'S HOUSE: PAUL BOWLES AND THE QUESTION OF MOROCCAN INDEPENDENCE /
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TANGIER, CAPITAL OF TREASON /
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FALSE CONCEPTS: THE ABSENCE OF SECURITY AND INTIMACY IN THE WORK OF PAUL BOWLES /
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THE MUSIC AND POLITICS OF PASTORELA (1941) /
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PAUL BOWLES AND LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC /
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"THE QUESTION OF MUSIC AND PROSE, IT'S A TRICKY ONE TO ANSWER" PAUL BOWLES: COMPOSER - WRITER /
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THE MUSICAL STYLES OF EARLY SONGS OF PAUL BOWLES /
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ON DEGENERESCENCE AND REALMS OF SUPPRESSION: PAUL BOWLES VIS-À-VIS EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA /
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NOISE AND VIOLENCE IN UP ABOVE THE WORLD - MUSIC AS TORTURE IN MODERN FICTION /
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AESTHETIC TOURISTS: THE SHELTERING SKY'S CRITIQUE OF MODERNISM /
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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 /
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"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 /
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EXPERIENCES OF DEATH AND DISSOLUTION IN PAUL BOWLES'S THE SHELTERING SKY AND JACK KEROUAC'S DESOLATION ANGELS AND THE DHARMA BUMS /
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GOOD FILM HUNTING: SARA DRIVER, PAUL BOWLES, AND TANGIER /
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A RESISTANT TEXT: "YOU ARE NOT I" /
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TOWARDS AN ABSENT ORIGIN: THE EDGE OF ANGER IN PAUL BOWLES'S "A DISTANT EPISODE" /
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THE IMPOSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE "OTHER" IN "THE TIME OF FRIENDSHIP" /
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THE FILM NARRATOR PAUL BOWLES /
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GOTHIC SHORT CIRCUITS IN PAUL BOWLES'S FICTION /
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LITERARY FRIENDSHIP: THE BOWLESES AND TENNESSEE WILLIAMS /
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CONTRIBUTORS /
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INDEX /
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Appeared earlier in the DIALOGUE series /
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042039087
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9042039086
Language:
English
