Patterned aimlessness: Iris Murdoch's novels of the 1970s and 1980s
The novels of Iris Murdoch are lively journeys across landscapes teeming with ideas. Such texts as An Accidental Man, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Black Prince, and The Sea, The Sea blend art and philosophy in tales that have intrigued and puzzled readers like few other contemporary novels. In...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The novels of Iris Murdoch are lively journeys across landscapes teeming with ideas. Such texts as An Accidental Man, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Black Prince, and The Sea, The Sea blend art and philosophy in tales that have intrigued and puzzled readers like few other contemporary novels. In Patterned Aimlessness Barbara Stevens Heusel brings an order and a clarity to the mystery of Murdoch's narrative form. She shows how this writer of many genres came to integrate philosophy, morality, psychology, language, and aesthetics in order to call into question the conventions of the English novel. Following Wittgenstein's lead Murdoch makes palpable the complexities of human experience, the "accidental, idiosyncratic happenings of life." Her fiction and her individual voice, Heusel says, reflect the chaos of existence with all of its contradictions, its paradoxes, its jarring rhythms. Heusel turns to literary theory to point out Murdoch's compatibility with Mikhail Bakhtin's views on the narrative voice in the novel. For both, morality is an utmost concern, and language is inherently a social, historical, and ideological creation: words resonate with centuries of meanings and uses. Answering some common criticisms of Murdoch's novels, Heusel also points out that Murdoch's presentation of female characters critiques societal expectations of women. The study culminates with thoughtful analyses of Murdoch's characters in A Word Child, The Black Prince, The Sea, The Sea, Nuns and Soldiers, and The Message to the Planet in light of the patterns she has introduced. |
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Autor: Heusel, Barbara Stevens
Jahr: 1995
Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii one Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals and Iris Murdoch’s Ongoing Dialogues with Other Philosophers 1 two Iris Murdoch’s Wittgensteinian Voice 23 three Iris Murdoch’s Wittgensteinian Voice: A Word Child, Nuns and Soldiers, and The Sea, The Sea 43 four Radical Otherness: Sartre, Romantic Rationalist; Sovereignty of Good; and The Fire and the Sun 82 five Iris Murdoch’s Novelistic Discourses: An Accidental Man 100 six Polyphonic Novels: The Philosopher’s Pupil and The Black Prince 118 seven Women’s Discourse: Nuns and Soldiers and The Message to the Planet 140 eight Characters Patterning Their Pilgrimages 156 nine Philosophical and Psychological Patterns Underlying the World of Iris Murdoch’s Novels 207 Conclusion 257 Notes 265 Bibliography 291 Index 301
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