Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch

The Retrospective Fiction

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Iris Murdoch

The Retrospective Fiction

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Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction traces the preoccupation in Murdoch's fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, haunting us and eluding our attempts to grasp it. This argument was given an extra resonance by the death of Murdoch after Alzheimer's disease in 1999, when the book was first published - a curious blurring of life and work typical of the posthumous reassessment of Murdoch. This new edition includes detailed readings of novels not discussed in the original ( The Bell, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, and The Philosopher's Pupil ) and includes a new preface, an updated bibliography and three new chapters covering Murdoch's most important and popular novels, considering in more depth her relationship with the dominant literary and intellectual currents of her time.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2004
ISBN
9780230288584
Edition
2
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Abbreviations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface to the Second Edition
  6. Preface to the First Edition
  7. 1 Revisiting the Sublime and the Beautiful: Iris Murdoch’s Realism
  8. 2 The Insistence of the Past
  9. 3 Narrative as Redemption: The Bell
  10. 4 Author and Hero: Murdoch’s First-Person Retrospective Novels
  11. 5 Reading Past Truth: Under the Net and The Black Prince
  12. 6 The Writing Cure: A Severed Head and A Word Child
  13. 7 The Ambivalence of Coming Home: The Italian Girl and The Sea, the Sea
  14. 8 Philosophy’s Dangerous Pupil: Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, Derrida and The Philosopher’s Pupil
  15. Notes
  16. Select Bibliography and References
  17. Index