Iris Murdoch and the moral imagination : essays /
"This anthology of international essays addresses both Murdoch's philosophy and writing in the context of Continental philosophy and postmodern fiction. Many of these twelve essays resist the prevailing critical orthodoxies, introducing instead new hermeneutical theories with which to appr...
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Co.,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a cheerful and encouraging element in a confusing scene / M.F. Simone Roberts and Alison Scott-Baumann
- Two women in dark times / Frances White
- A third sense of ethics between fiction and philosophy / Amy Smith
- Narrative and symbolic layering in The unicorn / Judit Varga
- Morality, visual arts, and Rembrandt in Iris Murdoch's Under the net and Zadie Smith's On beauty / Anne Rowe
- Enchantment, transformation, and rebirth in The green knight / Sharon R. Wilson
- Messy is flourishing is sublime / M.F. Simone Roberts
- Domination, resistance, and Anglo-Irish landlordism in The servants and the snow / Wei H. Kao
- Nausea under the net / Alison Scott-Baumann
- Suffering and contentment / Tony Milligan
- A subterranean dialogue with Nietzsche on the demonic and divine in The sea, the sea / Peter Mathews
- Naturalism and the good / John Hacker-Wright
- Morality in a world without God / Miles Leeson
- Conclusion : a meditation in swerves / Luisa Muraro.