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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date fall 1997) In the following review, Hibbard finds parallels between The Three-Arched Bridge and Julien Gracq's The Opposing Shore.] The narrator of The Three-Arched Bridge, a monk by the name of Gjon,...
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From: Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction, Twayne PublishersThe stories brought together in Midnight Mass (1981) and Unwelcome Words (1988) have not yet enjoyed the popularity that those in Bowles's Collected Stories have, despite the inclusion of many of them in A Distant...
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From: Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hibbard asserts that the early short stories "Tea on the Mountain," "The Scorpion," and "By the Water" examine the vulnerability and freedom of being an outsider.] In November...
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From: Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hibbard discusses Bowles's compositional methods in the "Kif Quartet" of A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard and comments on the function of drug use in the collection.] A...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date fall 2001) In the following review, Hibbard asserts that My Name Is Red explores themes that are "highly relevant" to contemporary Turkish society.] Colors figure prominently in this historical mystery...
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From: Paul Bowles: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Hibbard examines the concise prose, the struggle between old and new values, and the motif of physical transformation in Midnight Mass.] The stories brought together in...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(review date spring 1996) In the following review, Hibbard lauds the moral "shaping impulses" of Corruption, asserting that Ben Jelloun's text reveals the "endemic" social corruption in certain Arab countries.]...
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From: Philological Papers[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Hibbard examines Bowles's representation of expatriation in The Spider's House and "Here to Learn."] The expatriate writer or the writer in exile, by choosing to remove...