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1. My Sister's Hand in Mine: The
2. Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen
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3. A Little Original Sin: The Life
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4. Out in the World: Selected Letters
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5. The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles
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6. A Stick of Green Candy (Four Corners
 
7. The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
 
8. My Sister's Hand In Mine - An
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9. Dos damas muy serias
 
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10. Jane Bowles: Analyse der Kurzprosa
 
11. The collected works of Jane Bowles;
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12. A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The
 
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13. Plain Pleasures (Peter Owen Modern
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14. Einfache Freuden.
 
15. Plain Pleasures and Other Stories
 
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16. Astrology, Money & You
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17. DEUX DAMES S�RIEUSES
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18. Zwei sehr ernsthafte Damen.
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19. Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations
20. A Little Original Sin: The Life

1. My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
by Jane Bowles
Paperback: 496 Pages (2005-09-19)
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Though she wrote only one novella, one short play, and fewer than a dozen short stories over a roughly twenty-year span from the early 1940s to the mid-1960s, Jane Bowles has long been regarded by critics as one of the premier stylists of her generation. Enlivened at unexpected moments by sexual exploration, mysticism, andflashes of wit alternately dry and hilarious, her prose is spare and honed,her stories filled with subtly sly characterizations of men and, mostly, women, dissatisfied not so much with the downward spiral of their fortunes as with the hollowness of their neat little lives. Whether focused on the separate emergences of Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield from their affluent, airless lives in New York and Panama into a less definedbutintense sexual and social maelstrom in the novella Two Serious Ladies, or on the doomed efforts of the neighbors Mr. Drake and Mrs. Perry to form a connection out of their very different lonelinessin "Plain Pleasures," or on the bittersweet cultural collision of an American wife and a peasant woman inMorocco in "Everything Is Nice," Jane Bowles creates whole worlds out of the unexpressed longings of individuals, adrift in their own lives, whether residing in their childhood homes or in faraway lands that are somehow bothstranger andmore familiar than what they left behind.
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4-0 out of 5 stars essential reading
Jane Bowles writing is disturbing and contains little if no plot structure. Her stories seem to hint at broader psychological meanings or subtle epiphanies. All the stories and novellas in My Sister's Hand in Mine are written in third person. Bowles employs free indirect discourse, making the thoughts of her protagonists, the tones of their dialog, and their (often bizarre) psychological motivations drive the narrative. This form allows the reader to be inside the character's head--while preserving an outside, mysterious perspective and sense of distanced narrative authority.
A classic example of this technique is the short story A Stick of Green Candy, in which a little girl named Mary spends her days in a clay pit beside the highway pretending to be the leader of a group of soldiers. Mary's family would like her to play at the playground with other children but she detests it. Her military game seems juxtaposed to her outward appearance, but it is an excellent illustration of her inner world which is obsessive and competitive:
"She was a scrupulously clean child with a strong immobile face and long well arranged curls. Sometimes when she went home towards evening there were traces of clay on her dark coat, even though she had worked diligently with the brush she carried along every afternoon. She despised untidiness, and she feared that the clay might betray her headquarters, which she suspected the other children of trying to invade."
The description moves quickly from an exterior description of Mary hinting at her interior world--the `strong immobile face' to her habits and eventually deeper feelings--in this case suspicion and paranoia about other children.
Mary's soldier's training camp is invaded by a little boy who lives across the street from the clay pit. He simply stops by to play with her, and she ends up leaving `her men' to follow him home. The little boy's mother explains to her that he is not like a real boy--but has `got some girl in him thank the lord.' Then the boy gives Mary a stick of green candy. This interaction inspires Mary to do something she has never done--to view her `training camp' from above--on the highway.
"After gazing down at the sparkling lights for a while, she began to breathe more easily. She had never experienced the need to look at things from a distance before, nor had she flet the relief it that it can bring. All at once, the air stirring around her seemed delightful; she drank in great draughts of it, her eyes fixed on the lights below. She felt her blood tingle as it always did whenever she scored a victory."
The next day this feeling of perspective and distance has made her change her soldiers schedules, they all wait for the little boy to come back to the clay pit. There is something about the little boy that is just like Mary. The third person narration concisely provides her feelings.
"Surely he knew that all the while his mother was talking, she in secret had been claiming him for her own. He would come out soon and join her on the steps, and they would go away together."
But the little boy doesn't show up to play, though she believes he is watching her through his window. Mary eventually walks away from her soldiers alone.
Through free indirect discourse Bowles illustrates very subtly, sweetly and without any overt narrative analysis, the isolating and yearning experiences of children who do not feel at home with the expectations that come with their gender.

3-0 out of 5 stars Disappointing


I really wish I could jump on the bandwagon of singing Jane Bowles' praises, but I haven't been able to understand what all the fuss is about. "The greatest novelist of the century?"Whoa--this is not on my list of the top 100. I've long been a great fan of Paul Bowles--surely one of the most intense and talented writers of the last century--and Jane sounded interesting in all the reviews, but after reading both Camp Cataract and Two Serious Ladies, and several other of the stories, I was disappointed.Almost all are about odd, neurotic women with overpowering urges to escape their dreary lives of conformity, and/or who relate to other odd, neurotic women in strangely belligerant ways. All of the male characters are pathetic and superfluous, or are at least treated that way by women who have no use for them.

I found it frustrating that all of the characters constantly make decisions, or say things, that seem without any apparent motivation.It's very difficult to get a read on why any of the characters do what they do.A woman who seems to have been content all her life to live a staid, "respectable" existence decides she's going to be a prostitute.Why?Then she decides not to.Why?There's no explanation, in either inner monologue, dialogue, background plot, or anything--the characters just do things that seem...strange.I like strange--Paul Bowles, for example, can be very strange, and it's fascinating--but Jane seems to keep writing, I assume, about herself, in the obsessive manner of thenarcissist who can't stop thinking and talking and writing about her personal concerns as though they were universal.And maybe they are universal, among lesbians, I can't say.

Paul Bowles is timeless--his stories could have been written yesterday.Jane's are musty and dated, as well as very unsatisfying.They may be very fertile ground for exploring Jane's psyche, but if that's not of primary interest to you, you may find yourself finishing one story after another saying "Now what was that all about?"

5-0 out of 5 stars A must have item.
Jane Bowles is still an unfortunately neglected writer despite Tennessee Williams' statement that she is our finest American prose fiction writer.He wrote that in the early 70s, and it is still true today.She manages to surprise and fascinate and perplex and amuse in nearly every sentence.She is the kind of original our university writing courses and the 'searching for a hit' publishing industry are stifling.

4-0 out of 5 stars Night, Let Me Be Numbered Among Thy Sons And Daughters
My Sister's Hand In Mine: The Collected Works Of Jane Bowles (1970) offers readers the rewarding opportunity of entering the strange but oddly homey world of its author. The volume contains Bowles' only novel, Two Serious Ladies, her single work for the theater, the uneven In the Summer House, and thirteen short stories and unfinished pieces. The book's real strengths are Two Serious Ladies and the long story Camp Cataract, works that compliment one another and successfully define the unique landscape of Bowles' vision.

Married to the more famous novelist, composer, and expatriate Paul Bowles, Jane was an apparently bisexual woman with strong lesbian leanings. Thoughher liveliness and wit were widely appreciated by other artists of the period, most of whom were also ardent admirers of her talent, Bowles' life was compromised by anxiety, and her final years were marked by severe illness and tragedy.

The individualistic Bowles was probablyan introvert in Jung's original definition of term. Her character's fears largely revolve around the idea of "passage into the outside world," the states of existence that most people must inevitably face, embrace, and accept beyond the personalized state of the home and the nuclear family. But while confronting the outer world is a unpleasant necessity for most of Bowles' characters, family life, far from a paradise, remains a sentimentally idealized but claustrophobic circle in hell. Achieving and maintaining states of grace was also an important matter for the author, though her unsettlingly tragicomic approach to both thesethemes has historically kepther work from being widely understood and accepted as mainstream American literature.While other idiosyncratic writers like the vastly more prolific Muriel Spark have enjoyed decades of popularity and critical and commercial success and thus the opportunity to carefully evolve their personal vision, Bowles found the act of writing difficult, and her readership during her lifetime, in commercial terms, almost nonexistent.

Two Serious Ladies concerns Christina Goering and Frieda Copperfield, casual acquaintances who synchronistically strike out on no longer avoidable quests for personal salvation after meeting at a Manhattan party.

While Mrs. Copperfield seems to be seeking fulfilling love and all kinds of meaningful sensual pleasure, the independently wealthy Miss Goering apparently seeksspiritual development through material sacrifice, meager living, and confrontation with her fears in their social and public forms. Both women are simultaneously asexual and semi-consciously lesbian in their preferences; the married Mrs. Copperfield enthusiastically chases the love and company of other women in a Central American village, while the somewhat sheltered but more confident Miss Goering, who shares her home with both a woman and a man in an ambiguous arrangement, actively pursues first a failed businessman and then a gangster in the name of achieving her goals. Both women are weirdly naive, and Bowles never allows the reader a clear understanding of how knowledgeable, sophisticated, or self aware either character is. Both encounter and embrace a hilarious assemblage of oddball characters and misfits; like Miss Goering and Mrs. Copperfield, these eccentrics often seem incapable of objective or comparative perception, and may thus be doomed to lives of starchy parochialism. Only Mr. Copperfield, a figure unmistakably based on Paul Bowles, seems stable, clear-headed, and rationally self-motivated.

Unstable, indeterminate social conventions and mores haunt Bowles' characters. Routine train rides, visits to relative's homes, evenings out in taverns and restaurants, business meetings, and even the simple act of purchasing become comic war zones in which all present seem to enjoy a vastly different understanding of what behavior is appropriate and acceptable. Misunderstandings, breaches of etiquette, emotional hypersensitivity, and insults are common in The Collected Works Of Jane Bowles; fluid, trusting, easy, and healthy communication is sadly unknown.

The grueling Camp Cataract concerns a shrewd, secretive, and uncommonly self aware adult woman, Harriet, who is quietly and carefully planning a final break from her smothering and unconsciously incestuous sister Sadie. Unlike Two Serious Ladies, Camp Cataract contains surreal elements, fugue states, and odd flights of fantasy, but is also more far more specific about the intentions and inner workings of its characters: Harriet's desperate motivations are laid bear in a way that neither Miss Goering's and Mrs. Copperfield's ever are. During her alternately forlorn and energetic pursuit of her sister, Sadie isunpleasantly forced to confront the devouring public world she fears as well asthe heavily repressed psychosexual underpinnings of her character. Though wildly funny, few works of fiction can cause readers to twist and squirm like Camp Cataract.

Throughout, the writing is simple, subtle, admirably crisp, and compellingly readable; Bowles is also a master of peculiar, perfectly timed dialogue, a talent she uses to great effect throughout. Also notable are A Guatemalan Idyll, originally a section of Two Serious Ladies, and A Stick Of Green Candy, in which a young girl learns that violating the fidelity of her creative imagination brings about the permanent end of innocent fantasy.

5-0 out of 5 stars Read it
Incredible book. Jane Bowles has the unique characteristic of amusing and depressing us at the same time. Two serious ladies and her short fiction(Camp Catarat and Plain Pleasures are masterpieces) are unique. Her play is funny but she is not as good as in her narrative.
What you will find in this book is a complete diferent way of understanding live, you will encounter an original brain that expreses itself with the most personal sentences you will ever read. Jane stands alone in the whole literary tradition. Surrounded by her terror, obsessions and complete understanding of human heart what Bowles achieves is the perfect expression of human essence. ... Read more


2. Two Serious Ladies (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
by Jane Bowles
Paperback: 234 Pages (2003-08-26)
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5-0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite novels
This is fiction for persons who can accept of their fiction the same things they expect of life:slipping, sliding, blind-turning, colliding, parting, bewilderment, and a great deal of sly humor.Life does notdole out sane rational narratives.The eternal mystery is why people expect fiction to do so.Does fiction for them represent a means of imposing form on life?

2-0 out of 5 stars Bleagh
"Two Serious Ladies" was recommended in the Francine Prose book "Reading Like a Writer."It's disturbing in that the flat and freakish characters are highly privileged and extremely neurotic (or, as they prefer to think of themselves, "nervous"), their lives happening on parallel tracks, unable to connect meaningfully even with their closest family and friends.

Anais Nin wrote in Volume 5 of her Diary about the time "... (when) Jane brought out her first book [Two Serious Ladies]. I remember I was so distressed by the tightness, the involuted quality, the constricted, coiling inward (not into an infinite interior but a tight one) that I wrote her a careful, gentle, warm letter warning her of the danger of constriction for a writer, and she took it as a condemnation (a wrong interpretation).She asserted it was that letter which arrested her writing.Knowing how tenderly I handle writers, I knew my letter could not have been harmful.The difficulties were in herself."I must agree with Anais.

This book reminded me of the movie "Breaking the Waves" with Emily Watson, with repressed characters who punish or deny themselves and call it spirituality and sensitivity.The author also refuses to show all of the characters' actions within the story, perhaps to mirror the characters' withholding natures, but one expects more from the author.The book has some rewards, but I was happy to be done with it.

5-0 out of 5 stars I like it
Two serious ladies is a very strange book. The first time I read it I didn't quite undestand it but it caught me instantly. Jane Bowle's style is amazing. Circles and circles of rare relationships, quear people, exotic and everyday's ambients, perfect sentences, subtle humour forms this authentic masterpiece.
Once read, it will stay in your mind. Why do these women behave as they do?, what is Bowles triying to tell us? It's all crypt. You can read it and read it all over again and again and your conclusions will change.
Bowle's other writing (a play and short fiction)has the same quality: refreshing, new, modern. Nothing you will read will present you such an original brain. After all our tradition is that of sinners

4-0 out of 5 stars Two Serious Ladies
With shrewd wit, candour and a touch of the bizarre, Two Serious Ladies follows the demise into debauchery of two very dissimilar yet equally stodgy women, who aquire a fondness for eccentric personages. ChristinaGoering - rich,saintly spinster - turns high class call girl, whilstFrieda Copperfield - caught in a respectable, though staid marriage -abandons her husband for Pacifica, a Panamanian prostitute.The restless,autonomous, asexual female seeking self determination independent from menis a poignant theme which Jane Bowles explores with remarkable cleverness,hilarity and ruthless originality.Two Serious Ladies is a marvellousexample of Jane Bowles' extraordinary talent as a writer of contemporaryfiction - often obscured by her small literary output and the talent of herhusband, writer Paul Bowles ... unfortuately so. ... Read more


3. A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
by Millicent Dillon
Paperback: 476 Pages (1998-04-01)
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Tennessee Williams called Jane Bowles "the most important writer of prose fiction in modern American letters." John Ashbery said she was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction in any language," consistently producing "the surprise that is the one essential ingredient of great art." Here, available again, is the only biography of this powerful writer. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Strange and deeply engrossing
A little Original Sin is a superb biography of Jane Bowles, the child-woman whose outre lifestyle both energized and sometimes overshadowed her fiction. She and husband, composer Paul Bowles, manned an outpost of American bohemia in Morocco where they played host to such luminaries as Tennessee Williams, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote.

When she met Bowles in 1937, Jane was as-yet unpublished. She had been crippled in one knee by polio; he from the psychological abuse of a tyrannical father. It's possible that their marriage -- arranged to shock their families -- was never consummated. They do seem to have enjoyed atender and childlike camaraderie. According to biographer Dillon, the two relished role-playing games. (A favorite plotline included a parrot whose single utterance, "bupple," became their pet name for one another.)

AlthoughJane's literary reputation rests upon a slender body of work -- a novel, a play, and a collection of short stories -- her "originality" dazzled the likes of Gertrude Stein. Fragile, kittenish and indecisive, JB could also be a headstrong explorer and beguiling conversationlist. Ironically, it was the publication of her first novel, Two Serious Ladies, that encouraged her husband to write fiction. His own first novel, The Sheltering Sky, was a literary and commercial success. As Paul grew more productive, Jane became distracted by drink, drugs and an obsessive desire for an Arabic lesbian who milked her for cash and possibly poisoned her.Her decline is harrowing, but A Little Original Sin offers a tantalizing glimpse of ex-patriot life in the International Zone of Tangier in the 1950s as well as a trip into Jane's truly extraordinary mind.

(If you enjoyed this book, check out JB's collected works in, My Sister's Hand in Mind. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Classics.)

4-0 out of 5 stars The Original Biography
It's hard not to appreciate the elbow grease Millicent Dillon put into assembling the facts of Jane Bowles's tumultuous life just a few years after her death in 1973. Dillon includes generous excerpts from Bowles's letters and interviews most of the major players in her circle. But I found myself wishing she'd take more of a stab at finding a larger interpretation or meaning to Bowles's career, working her into a wider context that would help make sense of her writing and her times. The roots of Bowles's desperate alcoholism, her fear of writing in the shadow of Paul's success, her original, highly unusual approach to sexuality & gender in a more stringent time and place, her tangled relationship with Judaism, her fascination with the culture (and women) of Tangier: Dillon touches on these topics, but her reluctance to take Jane's life on any terms other than the author's own, or those of her close-knit circle, give the biography a sad, claustrophobic feel: it seems like a lot of ink to spill on someone who spent much of her life searching for ways to avoid writing. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think Bowles would benefit from a biographer more plugged in to the academic world, someone familiar with contemporary issues in queer studies or gender theory or Jewish-American lit, to really bring Jane's achievement to life.

4-0 out of 5 stars Really and orrigina sin
Great biography about a great character. Dillon's book is full of accurate info about one of the most original writers of all time. She mixes perfectly well literature and life. Also we can see all her friends and contemporaries: Paul Bowles, Tenese Williams, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Harper Lee, ...
So what you will find find is the perfect autodestruction of a creative mind surrounded by omens, terrors and obsessions, and the incredible pulsion of living. The good thing is that after reading this book you will feel the necessity of reading her works, and then you wil encounter the most incredible masterpieces of the 20 century. Good luck

5-0 out of 5 stars Great Biography about a Great Experiemntal Writer
This is a wonderfully well-written biography. It traces the interesting, complicated, humorous and intriguing life of the writer Jane Bowles. Married to writer and composer, Paul Bowles, it follows them on their many travels and their many friendships. Bowles approached life in her own peculiar way, and this aspect is captured by Dillon. The frustrations, anxieties and insecurities are caught in Bowles' many letters to friends. Dillon does a great job researching the illnesses that plagued Bowles near the end of her life, and Dillon is sensitive to how these roadblocks affected a deeply talented writer.

5-0 out of 5 stars ...and so it gos...
I have loved biographys for a long time now, this is one of my favorates.Her life style is intreaging, and it boggles me to know that each page inthis book is true. Jane is far from being a good person, but her passionfor life, love, and writing supass any wrongs she has done. If you lovelife read this book; and if you don't, find out what your missing. ... Read more


4. Out in the World: Selected Letters of Jane Bowles, 1935-1970
by Jane Auer Bowles
Paperback: 319 Pages (1985-03-01)
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For John Ashbery, Jane Bowles was "one of the finest modern writers of fiction, in any language." Her body of work is small: a novel, a play, and six short stories. And now we have her letters - 133 of them - which, like everything she wrote, are exercises in literary precision. As her editor Millicent Dillon writes, "they are exercises in emotional accuracy as well," little essays in which Bowles explained her joys, doubts, and obesssions to herself and to her correspondents, including her husband, Paul Bowles.



Includes 14 pages of black-&-white photographs. ... Read more


5. The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles (Viking Portable Library)
by Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles
Paperback: 640 Pages (1994-08-01)
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Asin: 0140169601
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6. A Stick of Green Candy (Four Corners Familiars)
by Denton Welch, Jane Bowles, Colter Jacobsen
Hardcover: 154 Pages (2010-03-31)
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For this fifth volume in the Four Corners Familiars series, in which artists respond to literary classics, the young San Francisco artist Colter Jacobsen (born 1975) has chosen four absolute masterpieces of short fiction: Jane Bowles' "A Stick of Green Candy" and "Camp Cataract," and Denton Welch's "The Trout Stream" and "Narcissus Bay." Bowles (1917-1973) and Welch (1915-1948) share a perceptiveness and surgical lucidity for moods and surfaces that William Burroughs, a fan of both authors, remarked upon: "both writers are masters of the unforgettable phrase that no one else could have writteneach has a very special way of seeing things." Jacobsen, who has previously collaborated with the writers Bill Berkson and Kevin Killian, and whose paired drawings-one drawn from life, the other from memory-demonstrate a flair and desire for response and collaboration, adds to these stories his marginalia, chapter headings and paired drawings, making of the whole an enticing mesh of sympathies. ... Read more


7. The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
by Jane Bowles
 Hardcover: 484 Pages (1984-01-01)

Isbn: 0720606136
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8. My Sister's Hand In Mine - An Expanded Edition Of The Collected Works Of Jane Bowles
by Jane; With an introduction by Capote, Truman Bowles
 Paperback: Pages (1991)

Asin: B000JZPGD2
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9. Dos damas muy serias
by Jane Bowles
Paperback: 222 Pages (1999-12-15)
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Esta novela relata el paradojico itinerario de dos mujeres muy diferentes en busca de su independencia. Una de familia distinguida, solterona y con tendencias misticas, que se fuerza a aventuras con desconocidos. La otra, desea lograr su felicidad terrenal a cualquier precio, abandona a su marido y se ponde a vivir con una joven prostituta panamena. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars De lo mejor
Una novela intrigante, original, divertida y feminista. Super recomendable y también diría imprescindible. Por momentos uno parece moverse en un mundo desconcertante. Los personajes son deliciosos. Y la manera de mirar el mundo de Jane Bowles es realmente particular, de vanguardia. El relato es hiper femenino, y puede servir a las mujeres para reconciliarse con esta palabra en la literatura y en la vida. ... Read more


10. Jane Bowles: Analyse der Kurzprosa (European university studies. Series XIV, Anglo-Saxon language and literature) (German Edition)
by Barbara Schinzel
 Perfect Paperback: 368 Pages (1996)
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11. The collected works of Jane Bowles; with an introduction by Truman Capote.
by Jane Bowles
 Paperback: Pages (1966)

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12. A Tawdry Place of Salvation: The Art of Jane Bowles
by Dr. Jennie Skerl Ph.D.
Hardcover: 200 Pages (1997-07-15)
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Through these essays—which deal with Bowles’s published as well as her unpublished work—Skerl seeks to generate serious critical attention for an important but neglected female experimental writer of the mid-twentieth century and to celebrate her originality, power, and craft.

Based in disciplines and theoretical approaches that range from feminist criticism to Middle Eastern studies, from postmodernism to queer theory, and from Victorianism to the Beat Generation, 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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13. Plain Pleasures (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
by Jane Bowles
 Paperback: 200 Pages (2004-02-25)
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In this collection of short fiction, ranging from North Africa to South American, Bowles explores her fascination with the hidden lives of apparently ordinary middle-aged women. ... Read more


14. Einfache Freuden.
by Jane Bowles
Paperback: 176 Pages (2002-02-01)
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15. Plain Pleasures and Other Stories (Arena Books)
by Jane Bowles
 Paperback: 240 Pages (1985-03)

Isbn: 0099359707
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16. Astrology, Money & You
by Jane Bowles
 Paperback: 413 Pages (1996)
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17. DEUX DAMES S�RIEUSES
by JANE BOWLES
Mass Market Paperback: 303 Pages (2007-05-15)
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18. Zwei sehr ernsthafte Damen.
by Jane Bowles, Adelheid Dormagen
Paperback: 264 Pages (2001-08-01)
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19. Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations
Paperback: 280 Pages (2005-06-26)
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Just as women in Greek myth are cast in roles ranging from the helpless and innocent to the manipulative and powerful, so women throughout the history of rhetoric have represented themselves as fulfilling roles that range from dependents or enablers of male authority to autonomous agents acting on their own. These essays examine the tactics women have employed in self-representation and the feminist rhetorics that result. Contributors examine both past and present practices, highlighting correspondences between them and the ways those practices have varied, succeeded, or failed.Essays in part 1 consider how women historically have found ways to speak and write, while negotiating the limitations of their positions as women, as well as their spiritual, class, and ethnic roles. Essays in part 2 study the formal genres, strategies, and techniques female rhetoricians have used; and the essays of part 3 consider the contemporary challenges faced by women rhetors in a pluralistic world and the strategies and genres they have inherited and transformed.Collectively, the essays look at the rhetorical issue of roles and representations by criss-crossing time and selecting particular issues and/or figures. Rhetorical Women is unique in that it juxtaposes several historical contexts in order to spotlight the strategies of the women rhetors.CONTRIBUTORSDorothy Allison Lillian Bridwell-BowlesKarlyn Kohrs CampbellLois Cucullu Julia DietrichJane DonawerthJane GallorYvonne MerrillHildy MillerCindy Moore Malea PowellJoy RitchieKate RonaldElizabeth West
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20. A Little Original Sin: The Life and Work of Jane Bowles
by Millicent Dillon
Hardcover: 464 Pages (1981)

Asin: B000OEBEUW
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Examines the life and writings of this American author (1917-1973). Contains chronology and list of publications, photos of friends and her husband Paul Bowles as well as her women lovers. Notes and index. ... Read more


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