Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination

This volume is the third volume in Palgrave Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series. Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who expand t...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leeson, Miles (Editor), White, Frances (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Iris Murdoch Today
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 ‘Of Science and of Light’: Learning with Iris Murdoch
  • 3 ‘In My Beginning Is My End’: Threads and Themes from Under the Net to Jackson’s Dilemma
  • 4 ‘A Man Shut in a Glass’: Textual Blindness and Iris Murdoch’s Under the Net (1954)
  • 5 ‘Now the Illumination’: Iris Murdoch as Zen Philosopher-Poet
  • 6 Iris Murdoch and The Tale of Genji
  • 7 Iris Murdoch, Australia and Me
  • 8 ‘The Scrambled Script’: Contingency and Necessity in Iris Murdoch’s The Green Knight
  • 9 ‘Adolescent Girls Attract Ghosts’: Iris Murdoch and the Supernatural
  • 10 Friendship, Sex, and the Moral Life in Iris Murdoch’s Novels
  • 11 Iris Murdoch and Goodness: How Good?