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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offering work not only on the novels, but on her unpublished poetry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 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 writings but also in her fiction. Indeed, it is in
her fiction that her philosophical argument is most persuasive and
accessible. This timely study provides new information regarding
Murdoch's engagement with Martin Heidegger and also provides a
detailed critique of critics who have overlooked Murdoch's
engagement with philosophy within her fiction.
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the
incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the
1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and
artists, rather than a single author from this period. The
collection exposes the wide use of incest and sexual trauma, and
the frequency this appears within contemporary literature and
related arts. Incest in contemporary literature discusses the
impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary
adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early
years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned
with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film.
Authors discussed include Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter,
Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris
Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and
Sylvia Plath. -- .
This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the
incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the
1950s to the present day. It considers a number of key authors and
artists, rather than a single author from this period. The
collection exposes the wide use of incest and sexual trauma, and
the frequency this appears within contemporary literature and
related arts. Incest in contemporary literature discusses the
impact of this change in attitudes on literature and literary
adaptations in the latter half of the twentieth century, and early
years of the twenty-first century. Although primarily concerned
with fiction, the collection includes work on television and film.
-- .
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 writings but also in her fiction. Indeed, it is in
her fiction that her philosophical argument is most persuasive and
accessible. This timely study provides new information regarding
Murdoch's engagement with Martin Heidegger and also provides a
detailed critique of critics who have overlooked Murdoch's
engagement with philosophy within her fiction.
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