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Iris Murdoch connected : critical essays on her fiction and philosophy / edited by Mark Luprecht.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Knoxville, Tennessee : The University of Tennessee Press, (c)2014.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xix, 212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781621901518
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR6063 .I757 2014
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Contents:
Mark Luprecht -- Essays on Iris Murdoch's literary works and approach to art. "Despite herself": the resisted influence of Virginia Woolf on Iris Murdoch's fiction / Frances White -- The case of Murdoch and Canetti / Elaine Morley -- The French connection: Iris Murdoch and Raymond Queneau / Miles Leeson -- "Near the gods": Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger / Anne Rowe -- "The now so unfashionable naturalistic idea of character": reanimating personhood from Under the net to John Banville / David James -- "Robbed of thy youth by me": the myth of Hyacinth and Apollo in The bell and the sea, the sea / Pamela Osborn -- Rebarbative wire? compartments and complexity in The bell and the body / Rivka Isaacson -- Essays on Iris Murdoch's philosophy. Puritanism and truthfulness in Iris Murdoch's philosophical ethic / Tony Milligan -- "The revoltingly contingent": Iris Murdoch's metaphysical bargain / Jiménez Heffernan, Julián -- "The most intimate bond": metaxological thinking in Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch / Kate Larson -- "Can The Knight of Faith be like an inspector of taxes": The Black Prince as a rendering of fear and trembling / Paul Martens -- A fundamental orientation to the good: Iris Murdoch's influence on Charles Taylor / Matthew J.M. Martinuk.
Subject: "Iris Murdoch was one of the most interesting and wide-ranging philosophers in recent British history. In addition to her five works on moral philosophy and existentalism, including Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, she was the author of twenty-five works of fiction, including The Sea, the Sea, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Black Prince, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. This collection reassesses her literary and philosophical output, focusing on her key literary works and the influence she had among contemporary philosophers"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / Mark Luprecht -- Essays on Iris Murdoch's literary works and approach to art. "Despite herself": the resisted influence of Virginia Woolf on Iris Murdoch's fiction / Frances White -- The case of Murdoch and Canetti / Elaine Morley -- The French connection: Iris Murdoch and Raymond Queneau / Miles Leeson -- "Near the gods": Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger / Anne Rowe -- "The now so unfashionable naturalistic idea of character": reanimating personhood from Under the net to John Banville / David James -- "Robbed of thy youth by me": the myth of Hyacinth and Apollo in The bell and the sea, the sea / Pamela Osborn -- Rebarbative wire? compartments and complexity in The bell and the body / Rivka Isaacson -- Essays on Iris Murdoch's philosophy. Puritanism and truthfulness in Iris Murdoch's philosophical ethic / Tony Milligan -- "The revoltingly contingent": Iris Murdoch's metaphysical bargain / Jiménez Heffernan, Julián -- "The most intimate bond": metaxological thinking in Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch / Kate Larson -- "Can The Knight of Faith be like an inspector of taxes": The Black Prince as a rendering of fear and trembling / Paul Martens -- A fundamental orientation to the good: Iris Murdoch's influence on Charles Taylor / Matthew J.M. Martinuk.

"Iris Murdoch was one of the most interesting and wide-ranging philosophers in recent British history. In addition to her five works on moral philosophy and existentalism, including Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, she was the author of twenty-five works of fiction, including The Sea, the Sea, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Black Prince, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. This collection reassesses her literary and philosophical output, focusing on her key literary works and the influence she had among contemporary philosophers"--

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