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Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist

Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist

Leeson, Miles

Hardcover

Series: Continuum Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0826443702
ISBN13: 9780826443700
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Apr 11 2010
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

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.

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