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Author Heusel, Barbara Stevens.

Title Patterned aimlessness : Iris Murdoch's novels of the 1970s and 1980s / Barbara Stevens Heusel
Published Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1995]
©1995

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 W'PONDS  820.914 M97445 Z/HEP  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals and Iris Murdoch's Ongoing Dialogues with Other Philosophers -- 2. Iris Murdoch's Wittgensteinian Voice -- 3. Iris Murdoch's Wittgensteinian Voice: A Word Child, Nuns and Soldiers, and The Sea, The Sea -- 4. Radical Otherness: Sartre, Romantic Rationalist; Sovereignty of Good; and The Fire and the Sun -- 5. Iris Murdoch's Novelistic Discourses: An Accidental Man -- 6. Polyphonic Novels: The Philosopher's Pupil and The Black Prince -- 7. Women's Discourse: Nuns and Soldiers and The Message to the Planet -- 8. Characters Patterning Their Pilgrimages -- 9. Philosophical and Psychological Patterns Underlying the World of Iris Murdoch's Novels
Notes Bibliography: p291-300. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-300) and index
Subject Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation.
Murdoch, Iris, 1919- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Murdoch, Iris, 1919-1999 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Literary form -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophy in literature.
Philosophy -- In literature.
Fiction -- Technique.
Literary form.
LC no. 94028260
ISBN 0820317071 alkaline paper