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IRIS MURDOCH
A REASSESSMENT |
| By: |
Anne Rowe (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230625177 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230625174 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
13 October, 2006 |
| Description: |
This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine, develop or contest previous readings, and blur the distinction between liberal humanist and theoretical positions, suggesting negotiations between them. |
| Synopsis: |
Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment is an interdisciplinary anthology of writing that reassesses Murdoch's engagement with theology, philosophy and fiction. Her attempts to demythologize Christianity are explored from both the Western and Eastern theological traditions, while philosophers review and reinterpret Murdoch's demand that we eschew self-examination in order to become morally better. Murdoch's suspicions of literary theory and feminism are renegotiated by writers who forge links between her work and that of theorists whose ideas she contested. Iris Murdoch's place in the liberal humanist literary tradition is celebrated, and her significance in the evolutionary chain of the novel that stretches forward to the current century is secured by the identification of a Murdochian legacy within the work of Carol Shields and Ian McEwan. Finally, in the light of intimate personal revelations of recent years, insights into how much of Murdoch herself lies hidden within her fiction serve to enlarge, rather than diminish, the significance of her work. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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