Iris Murdoch and morality
By: edited by Anne Rowe and Avril Horner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780230224452
Description: "This volume, featuring contributions from a number of leading scholars, explores the ways in which the moral positions Iris Murdoch adopts in her philosophy and theology can be aligned with her fiction, demonstrating how Murdoch's work can contribute significantly to discussions about the relationship between literature and morality"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Art, morals and the discovery of reality / Anne Rowe and Avril Horner; title: Part I : Morality and the novel; title: Murdoch's mannered realism : metafiction, morality and the post-war Novel / Bran Nicol; title: The preachers tone : Murdoch's mentors and moralists / Priscilla Martin; title: Stories, rituals and healers in Iris Murdoch's fiction / Rob Hardy; title: Laughing at something tragic : Murdoch as anti-moralist / Peter J.Conradi; title: 'Refinements of evil' : Iris Murdoch and the gothic / Avril Horner; title: Part II : A moral union : philosophy and literature; title: Iris Murdoch, the ethical turn and literary value / Simon Haines; title: Murdoch's fictional philosophers : what they say and what they show / Scott H. Moore; title: Death and goodness : Bruno's dream and "The sovereignty of good over other concepts / Mark Luprecht; title: Jacksons dilemma and 'The responsible life of the imagination' / Frances White; title: PART III : Morality without God : Iris Murdoch's secular theology; title: 'The dream that does not cease to haunt us' : Iris Murdoch's Holiness / Anne Rowe; title: 'A story about a man' : the demythologised Christ in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Patrick White / Pamela Osborn; title: Do not seek God outside your own soul : Buddhism in The green knight / Tammy Grimshaw; title: The moral fate of fictive persons : On Iris Murdoch's humanism / William Schweiker.