Iris Murdoch and Morality

By Anne Rowe

Book Overview

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on references and Abbreviations Introduction: Art, Morals and 'The Discovery of Reality'; A.Rowe & A.Horner PART I: MORALITY AND THE NOVEL Murdoch's Mannered realism: Metafiction, Morality and the Post-War Novel; B.Nicol The Preacher's Tone: Murdoch's Mentors and Moralists; P.Martin Stories, Rituals and Healers in Iris Murdoch's Novels; R.Hardy Laughing at Something Tragic: Murdoch as Anti-Moralist; P.Conradi 'Refinements of Evil': Iris Murdoch and the Gothic; A.Horner PART II: A MORAL UNION: PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE Iris Murdoch the Ethical Turn and Literary Value; S.Haines Murdoch's Fictional Philosophers: What They Say and What They Show; S.Moore Death and Goodness: Bruno's Dream and 'The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts'; M.Luprecht Jackson's Dilemma and The Responsible Life of the Imagination; F.White PART III: MORALITY WITHOUT GOD: IRIS MURDOCH'S SECULAR THEOLOGY 'The Dream that Does Not Cease to Haunt Us': Iris Murdoch's Holiness; A.Rowe 'A Story About a Man': The Demythologized Christ in the Work of Iris Murdoch and Patrick White; P.Osborn 'Do Not Seek God Outside Your Own Soul': Buddhism in The Green Knight; T.Grimshaw The Moral Fate of Fictive Persons: On Iris Murdoch's Humanism; W.Schweiker Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349309478
• ISBN13: 9781349309474
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"