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Iris Murdoch and morality

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Iris Murdoch and moralityedited by Anne Rowe and Avril Horner.
other author:	Horner, Avril,
Published:	Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010.
Description:	xiii, 198 p.
Subject:	Ethics in literature.
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230277229

Iris Murdoch and morality
Iris Murdoch and morality[electronic resource] /edited by Anne Rowe and Avril Horner. - Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - xiii, 198 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Art, morals and the discovery of reality / Anne Rowe and Avril Horner -- Part I : Morality and the novel -- Murdoch's mannered realism : metafiction, morality and the post-war Novel / Bran Nicol -- The preachers tone : Murdoch's mentors and moralists / Priscilla Martin -- Stories, rituals and healers in Iris Murdoch's fiction / Rob Hardy -- Laughing at something tragic : Murdoch as anti-moralist / Peter J.Conradi -- 'Refinements of evil' : Iris Murdoch and the gothic / AvrilHorner -- Part II : A moral union : philosophy and literature -- Iris Murdoch, the ethical turn andliterary value / Simon Haines -- Murdoch's fictional philosophers : what they say and what they show/ Scott H. Moore -- Death and goodness : Bruno's dream and "The sovereignty of good over other concepts / Mark Luprecht -- Jacksons dilemma and 'The responsible life of the imagination' / Frances White -- PART III : Moralitywithout God : Iris Murdoch's secular theology -- 'The dream that does not cease to haunt us' : Iris Murdoch's Holiness / Anne Rowe --'A storyabout a man' : the demythologisedChrist in the novels of Iris Murdochand Patrick White / Pamela Osborn -- Do not seek God outside yourown soul : Buddhism in The green knight / Tammy Grimshaw -- The moral fate of fictive persons : On Iris Murdoch's humanism / William Schweiker.

Iris Murdoch and Morality provides innovate readings of Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates her work within current theoretical and philosophical debates and suggests it is acrucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory. Discussionsof her fiction focus on her 'mannered realism', her idiosyncratic use of the Gothic, her anti-moralistic humour and the roles of some subversively constructed 'preachers'. Explorations of the complex moral philosophy within her novels reveal how it is both tested and contested there, for example by her use of fictional philosophers. Her more focused meditations on virtue and evil are investigated through attention to one of her fictional mystics and to the greatest moral catastrophe of the twentieth century-the Holocaust. Insights into Murdoch's 'neo-theology' are offered alongside her demythologizing of Christ and her engagement with Buddhism and Humanism, each offering new ways of thinking about herrelationship to God and the Good. The nature of goodness and evil is as much the subject of this volume as Iris Murdoch herself.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230277229Subjects--Personal Names:

439445
Murdoch, Iris
--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

191312
Ethics in literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR6063.U7 / Z713 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914

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520 $a Iris Murdoch and Morality provides innovate readings of Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates her work within current theoretical and philosophical debates and suggests it is acrucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory. Discussionsof her fiction focus on her 'mannered realism', her idiosyncratic use of the Gothic, her anti-moralistic humour and the roles of some subversively constructed 'preachers'. Explorations of the complex moral philosophy within her novels reveal how it is both tested and contested there, for example by her use of fictional philosophers. Her more focused meditations on virtue and evil are investigated through attention to one of her fictional mystics and to the greatest moral catastrophe of the twentieth century-the Holocaust. Insights into Murdoch's 'neo-theology' are offered alongside her demythologizing of Christ and her engagement with Buddhism and Humanism, each offering new ways of thinking about herrelationship to God and the Good. The nature of goodness and evil is as much the subject of this volume as Iris Murdoch herself.
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