Horner, Avril
Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts
1. Introduction
Anne Rowe, Avril Horner
Part 1. Theological and Visionary Contexts
2. Iris Murdoch: A Case of Star-Friendship
Don Cupitt
3. The Visionary Aspects of Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy
Heather Widdows
Part 2. Political and Cultural Contexts
4. Iris Murdoch and the Two Cultures: Science, Philosophy and the Novel
Patricia Waugh
5. Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan and the Place of the Political in Contemporary Fiction
Anne Rowe, Sara Upstone
Part 3. The Derridean Context
6. Murdoch and Derrida: Holding Hands under the Table
Tony Milligan
7. Murdoch, Derrida and
Paul S. Fiddes
8. Minding the Gap: Mourning in the Work of Murdoch and Derrida
Pamela Osborn
Part 4. Contexts of Power
9. Iris Murdoch and Theodor Reik: Sado-Masochism in
Mark Luprecht
10. Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti: Towards a Reassessment
Elaine Morley
Part 5. Literary Contexts
11. The ‘wondrous necessary man’: Canetti,
Avril Horner
12. A Post-Christian Concept of Martyrdom and the Murdochian Chorus:
Frances White
13. Language, Memory and Loss: Kristevan Psychoanalytical Perspectives on Intertextual Connections in the Work of Murdoch and Banville
Wendy Vaizey
Part 6. Biographical Contexts
14. The Influence of Childhood Reading on the Fiction of Iris Murdoch
Janfarie Skinner
15. Murdoch on Film: ‘Re-Seeing Reality’ in Richard Eyre’s
Alex Ramon
Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Gender Studies
- Editor
- Horner, Avril
- Rowe, Anne
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 258 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137271365
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-34551-9