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A tawdry place of salvation : the art of Jane Bowles

Author: Jennie Skerl
Publisher: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In this first critical study of the work of Jane Bowles, Jennie Skerl presents eleven essays, which, she explains, "pay attention to the works, not the biography or the myth, in order to understand and appreciate [Bowles's] brilliant oeuvre." Through these essays - which deal with Bowles's published as well as her unpublished work - Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention to an important but neglected  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Tawdry place of salvation.
Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1997
(OCoLC)645860761
Named Person: Jane Auer Bowles; Jane Bowles
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jennie Skerl
ISBN: 0809321009 9780809321001 0809321211 9780809321216
OCLC Number: 35620335
Description: ix, 185 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Sallies into the outside world : a literary history of Jane Bowles / Jennie Skerl --
The narrative erotics of Two serious ladies / Carolyn J. Allen --
"The Americans stick pretty much in their own quarter" : Jane Bowles and Central America / Stephen Benz --
Family dynamics in Jane Bowles's In the summer house / Peter G. Christensen --
Mommy dearest : mothers and daughrers in Jane Bowles's In the summer house and other plays by contemporary women writers / Charlotte Goodman --
Sister act : a reading of Jane Bowles's puppet play / Regina Weinreich --
Jane Bowles and the semi-Oriental woman / John Maier --
Jane Bowles in uninhabitable places : writing on cultural boundaries / Carol Shloss --
"Some fun in the mud" : decrepitude and salvation in the world of Jane Bowles / Robert E. Lougy --
The unfinished Jane Bowles / Gena Dagel Caponi --
Toward a postmodern aesthetic : indeterminacy, instability, and inconclusiveness in Out in the world / Allen E. Hibbard.
Responsibility: edited by Jennie Skerl.
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In this first critical study of the work of Jane Bowles, Jennie Skerl presents eleven essays, which, she explains, "pay attention to the works, not the biography or the myth, in order to understand and appreciate [Bowles's] brilliant oeuvre." Through these essays - which deal with Bowles's published as well as her unpublished work - Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention to an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth century and to celebrate her originality, power, and craft. Based in disciplines that range from feminist criticism to Middle Eastern studies, from queer theory to the Beat Generation, and from postmodernism to Victorianism, the essayists naturally approach Bowles's fiction and drama from a wide variety of critical perspectives. All of these essays are unpublished and written for this volume.

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