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1 online resource (170 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Continuum Literary Studies
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Continuum literary studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Murdoch's Earliest Work and the Existential; Chapter Two: A Severed Head: The Impact of Freud and Nietzsche; Chapter Three: Martin Heidegger and The Time of the Angels; Chapter Four: The Bell and Platonism; Chapter Five: The Philosopher's Pupil: A Revision of Ideas?; Chapter Six: A Wittgensteinian Neo-Platonist: The Green Knight; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
| Summary |
This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch''s engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was, most importantly, a philosophical novelist. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it becomes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning. Leeson proceeds thematically through the philosophical phases of Murdoch''s life and develops a clear argument that Murdoch reacts against the philosophies of Sartre, Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only in her philosophical wri. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Murdoch, Iris. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Murdoch, Iris -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Philosophy in literature.
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Philosophy in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leeson, Miles. Iris Murdoch : philosophical novelist. London, England ; New York : Continuum, ©2010 ix, 159 pages Continuum literary studies. 9781441110220 |
| ISBN |
9781441179043 (electronic book) |
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1441179046 (electronic book) |
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1306847419 (e-book) |
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9781306847414 (e-book) |
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9781441110220 |
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9780826443700 |
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