Beschreibung:
This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who expand the boundaries of recent criticism offering work not only on the novels, but on her unpublished poetry and archival materials. This collection discusses her interest in, and use of, Japanese literature; her relationship with, and reader-response to her, in Australia; Murdoch in the post #metoo era; her lifelong interest in the supernatural, same-sex relationships and friendships; as well as the use and abuse of biographical material. The collection widens the field of Murdoch studies and marks a new waypoint in the development of her critical reception.
This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.
Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who expand the boundaries of recent criticism offering work not only on the novels, but on her unpublished poetry and archival materials. This collection discusses her interest in, and use of, Japanese literature; her relationship with, and reader-response to her, in Australia; Murdoch in the post #metoo era; her lifelong interest in the supernatural, same-sex relationships and friendships; as well as the use and abuse of biographical material. The collection widens the field of Murdoch studies and marks a new waypoint in the development of her critical reception.
1 Introduction.- 2 ‘Of Science and of Light’: Learning with Iris Murdoch.- 3 ‘In My Beginning Is My End’: Threads and Themes fromUnder the Net to Jackson’s Dilemma.- 4 ‘A Man Shut in a Glass’: Textual Blindness and Iris
Murdoch’sUnder the Net (1954).- 5 ‘Now the Illumination’: Iris Murdoch as Zen Philosopher-Poet.- 6 Iris Murdoch andThe Tale of Genji.- 7 Iris Murdoch, Australia and Me.- 8 ‘The Scrambled Script’: Contingency and Necessity in Iris Murdoch’sThe Green Knight.- 9 ‘Adolescent Girls Attract Ghosts’: Iris Murdoch and the Supernatural.- 10 Friendship, Sex, and the Moral Life in Iris Murdoch’s Novels.- 11 Iris Murdoch and Goodness: How Good?.
