Experiences of death and dissolution in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky and Jack Kerouac’s Desolation Angels and The Dharma Bums

• Analysis of the novels by Paul Bowles and Jack Kerouac taking into account the relation between man and wilderness, exploring the impossibility of a perfect communion with nature, a common theme in american literature.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Annan humaniora -- Kulturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Other Humanities -- Cultural Studies (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturvetenskap (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- General Literary Studies (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Paul Bowles; Jack Kerouac; Buddhism; Nature

Cultural Studies

Kulturstudier

General Literature Studies

Litteraturvetenskap

Literature

litteraturvetenskap

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