Description

Book Synopsis
Beginning with Bowles' account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure—fundamental dualities in Bowles' fiction—have their deepest origin in the fabri

Trade Review
... without question the best full-length study of Bowles's fiction to date. * Partisan Review *
If all critical studies were as necessary and well executed as A World Outside, one might spend more time indoors reading them, and criticism would be not another form of alienation but the help and joy it too often is not * American Literature *

Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Interiors and Exteriors (I)
  • 2. Interiors and Exteriors (II)
  • 3. Going Outside
  • 4. The Shapes of Bowles’ Fiction
  • 5. Story as Shelter
  • Notes
  • Abbreviations Used
  • Bibliography
  • Index

A World Outside

    Product form

    £15.19

    Includes FREE delivery

    RRP £15.99 – you save £0.80 (5%)

    Order before 4pm today for delivery by Thu 6 Aug 2026.

    A Paperback / softback by Richard F. Patteson

    4 in stock

      Trusted by thousands of customers. See 2,385+ Customer Reviews

      View other formats and editions of A World Outside by Richard F. Patteson

      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1987
      ISBN13: 9780292790353, 978-0292790353
      ISBN10: 029279035X
      Also in:
      Literary studies: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Beginning with Bowles' account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure—fundamental dualities in Bowles' fiction—have their deepest origin in the fabri

      Trade Review
      ... without question the best full-length study of Bowles's fiction to date. * Partisan Review *
      If all critical studies were as necessary and well executed as A World Outside, one might spend more time indoors reading them, and criticism would be not another form of alienation but the help and joy it too often is not * American Literature *

      Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Interiors and Exteriors (I)
      • 2. Interiors and Exteriors (II)
      • 3. Going Outside
      • 4. The Shapes of Bowles’ Fiction
      • 5. Story as Shelter
      • Notes
      • Abbreviations Used
      • Bibliography
      • Index

      Recently viewed products

      © 2026 Book Curl

        • American Express
        • Apple Pay
        • Diners Club
        • Discover
        • Google Pay
        • Maestro
        • Mastercard
        • PayPal
        • Shop Pay
        • Union Pay
        • Visa

        Login

        Forgot your password?

        Don't have an account yet?
        Create account