Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch'snovels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link betweentwentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory. INDICE: - 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 Dilemmaand 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22445-2
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 216
- Fecha Publicación: 29/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés