Stylistic and metaphorical dimensions of Paul Bowles' the sheltering sky within the concept of jungian archetype(s) and Kristevian Semiotic chora

Abstract

This thesis attempts to present an analysis of Paul Bowles' ''The Sheltering Sky'' within the framework of Carl Jung's Archetypes related to his concept ''Collective Unconscious'' along with the linguistic formations in Julia Kristeva's theory Semiotic Chora and its symbolic dispositions called Genotext / Phenotext. This study aims to suggest a model that the convergent points of Kristevian Chora and Jungian Archetypes merge into forms through which the qualitative content analysis on Bowles' passages evaluate their metaphoric dimensions and shed light on the two major characters' point of view within the context of the psychological interpretation of the novel.