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Author |
: David J. Gordon |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015034927619 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing by : David J. Gordon
Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more deeply and comprehensively than any previous critic the intellectual energies, and the ethical imperative of "unselfing", that inform her fiction. Gordon contends that the term fable best describes the kind of novel Murdoch writes because in each a mythmaking purpose interacts with a commitment to realism, shaping the erotic life of fictional characters into a spiritual pilgrimage on which they struggle, more or less unsuccessfully, to overcome the self-centeredness that keeps them away from the Good. The most original element in the fiction, Gordon argues, is not its striking modernization of Plato or its adaptations of nineteenth-century influences, but its intensely creative struggle with Freud. In developing his analysis of her themes, Gordon draws on Murdoch's work from throughout her forty-year career, showing how each novel grew out of its predecessors and in what ways each is original.
Author |
: Frances White |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783031430138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3031430131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch and Remorse by : Frances White
Author |
: Iris Murdoch |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 501 |
Release |
: 2010-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781453200872 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1453200878 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Philosopher's Pupil by : Iris Murdoch
A New York TimesNotable Book: An “ingeniously plotted” tale of tragedy, comedy, and small-town gossip (The New York Times Book Review). The quiet English town of Ennistone is known for its peaceful, relaxing spa—a haven of restoration, rejuvenation, and calm. Until the night George McCaffrey’s car plunges into the cold waters of the canal, carrying with it his wife, Stella. And until the village’s most celebrated son, famed philosopher John Robert Rozanov, returns home, upending the lives of everyone with whom he comes in contact. Stirred up by talk of murder and morality, obsession and lust, religion and righteousness, the residents of Ennistone begin to spiral out of control, searching for answers and redemption for the sins of their peers—and discovering more about themselves than they ever wanted to know. With breakneck plotting and intricately flawed characters, The Philosopher’s Pupil is a darkly humorous novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea, masterfully exploring the human condition and the inherent blend of comedy and tragedy therein.
Author |
: B. Nicol |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 220 |
Release |
: 1999-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230374751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230374751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch by : B. Nicol
Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated by the question of the past. Drawing on many of her key works, and providing the first analysis of her 'first-person retrospective' novels as a separate group within the larger body of her fiction, the book also considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within twentieth-century thought, like modernism. postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
Author |
: Miles Leeson |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2011-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441127631 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441127631 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist by : Miles Leeson
This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch's engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was, most importantly, a philosophical novelist. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it becomes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning. Leeson proceeds thematically through the philosophical phases of Murdoch's life and develops a clear argument that Murdoch reacts against the philosophies of Sartre, Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only in her philosophical writings but also in her fiction. Indeed, it is in her fiction that her philosophical argument is most persuasive and accessible. This timely study provides new information regarding Murdoch's engagement with Martin Heidegger and also provides a detailed critique of critics who have overlooked Murdoch's engagement with philosophy within her fiction.
Author |
: Anne Rowe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789620160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789620163 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch by : Anne Rowe
Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public intellectual. This thematically based study outlines the overarching themes that characterise her fiction decade by decade, explores her unique role as a British philosopher-novelist, explains the paradoxical nature of her outspoken atheism and highlights the neglected aesthetic aspect of her fiction, which innovatively extended the boundaries of realist fiction. While Iris Murdoch is acknowledged here as a writer who vividly evokes the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, she is also presented as a figure whose unconventional life and complex presentation of gender and psychology has immense resonance for twenty-first-century readers.
Author |
: A. Rowe |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2012-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137271365 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137271361 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts by : A. Rowe
Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also reveals startling parallels between Murdoch's work and other literary and philosophical texts.
Author |
: Maria Antonaccio |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2003-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195347265 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195347269 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Picturing the Human by : Maria Antonaccio
Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious ethics and political theory. Yet it has never been the subject of a book-length study in its own right. Picturing the Human seeks to fill this gap. In this groundbreaking book, author Maria Antonaccio presents the first systematic and comprehensive treatment of Murdoch's moral philosophy. Unlike literary critical studies of her novels, it offers a general philosophical framework for assessing Murdoch's thought as a whole. Antonaccio also suggests a new interpretive method for reading Murdoch's philosophy and outlines the significance of her thought in the context of current debates in ethics. This vital study will appeal to those interested in moral philosophy, religious ethics, and literary criticism, and grants those who have long loved Murdoch's novels a closer look at her remarkable philosophy.
Author |
: Lisa M. Fiander |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0820472530 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780820472539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A.S. Byatt by : Lisa M. Fiander
The Grimm brothers' fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain's most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales - bestiality, cannibalism, and incest - and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.
Author |
: Anne Rowe |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 210 |
Release |
: 2015-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230277229 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230277225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Iris Murdoch and Morality by : Anne Rowe
Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.