Sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's fiction
By: Tammy Grimshaw.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Madison, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation.; Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.; Feminist fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Power (Social sciences) in literature.; Gender identity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Sex in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's thought and art; title: The social construction of homosexuality in Murdoch's fiction; title: Iris Murdoch and Simone de Beauvoir : a feminist reading of Murdoch's fiction; title: A Foucauldian reading of The bell and A fairly honourable defeat; title: A Foucauldian reading of A severed head and The time of the angels; title: "Bisexuality" in Henry and Cato and The book and the brotherhood; title: Transvestism in The philosopher's pupil, The green knight, and The black prince; title: Conclusion : contradictions, paradoxes, and reconciliations.