| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) |
| Series |
Continuum Literary Studies |
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Continuum literary studies.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Murdoch, Iris -- Criticism and interpretation
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Murdoch, Iris -- Philosophy
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| SUBJECT |
Murdoch, Iris fast |
| Subject |
Philosophy in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Philosophy
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Philosophy in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441179043 |
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1441179046 |
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1306847419 |
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9781306847414 |
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9781472542496 |
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1472542495 |
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0826443702 |
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9780826443700 |
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1441110224 |
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9781441110220 |
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9781441127631 |
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1441127631 |
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