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Book SynopsisIris Murdoch and Her Work assembles eighteen essays on the work of Iris Murdoch by scholars whose researches on Murdoch are already well-known. The book explores different aspects of Murdoch's work including her philosophy and fiction and focuses on a wide variety of issues ranging from reading Murdoch as a fabulator" to the central role Murdoch plays in the "ethical turn". Approaching Murdoch's work from multiple perspectives, this book is of interest for Murdoch scholars and literature and philosophy students as well as for general readers.
Trade Review"[...] the two essays with which the anthology opens (by Nicol and White) are important markers in the current state of Murdoch studies. Their inclusion makes a noteworthy contribution to contemporary Murdoch scholarship and suggests this volume as essential reading for new students of Murdoch seeking to understand her place in current intellectual and literary debate. The volume adds to established areas of research and also points to relatively new terrain; Murdoch's interest in Buddhism and Indian literature, her influence on other writers and theoreticians and her literary relationships with contemporaries represent just a few of the many rich and exciting areas awaiting scholarly attention." -- The Iris Murdoch Review, 3/2011
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Reading Iris Murdoch and Her Work, by Mustafa Kirca and Sule Okuroglu 1. Postmodern Murdoch, by Bran Nicol 2. 'Art is for life's sake ... or else it is worthless': The Innovatory Influence of Iris Murdoch, by Frances White 3. Iris Murdoch as an Anglo-Irish Novelist, by A. Clare Brandabur 4. Female Subversions of Male Power in A Severed Head and The Time of the Angels, by Gillian M. E. Alban 5. Intertextuality in The Green Knight, by Fiona Tomkinson 6. The Flaneur in Under the Net, by Mukadder Erkan 7. The Nostalgic Search for the Past: The Desperate Journey to the Dark Realm of the Unconscious in Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea, by Neslihan Ekmekcioglu 8. Understanding Iris Murdoch and Her Art: The Existential Universe of Murdoch's Under the Net, by Goksen Aras 9. Female Author Male Narrator: Voicing the Voiceless, by Meryem Ayan and Reyhan Ozer 10. The Sea, The Sea: A Reading in the Light of the Bhagavad Gita, by Minnie Mattheew 11. An Indian Reading of Iris Murdoch's The Nice and The Good, by Indira Nityanandam 12. Metaphysics and Melodrama in Iris Murdoch: A Critical Study, by Karan Singh Yadav and Jyoti Yadav 13. Degrees of Relation: Iris Murdoch and A. S. Byatt: A Narratological Comparison, by Joshua Lobb 14. The Italian Girl: Iris Murdoch and the Desire of Redemption, by Carla Fusco 15. Knowledge of Love: An Ethical Study of Murdochian Humble Man, by Farzaneh Naseri-Sis 16. An Existential Dilemma in An Accidental Man, by Ekin Siriner 17. The Postmodern Thought of Truth in Iris Murdoch's The Black Prince, by Ayse Yonkul 18. Transformation from Evil to Good: An Analysis of Murdoch's The Italian Girl, by Kubra Cakiroglu Notes on Contributors Index
