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Contingency in Iris Murdoch's "Under the Net"

Author : Saskia Bachner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640154533
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Contingency in Iris Murdoch's "Under the Net" written by Saskia Bachner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, course: British Literature of the 50's, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: All human beings have a deep need for necessity in their lives. We want to know why we exist, we want to understand the world and its secrets, and we want to know our place in the world. Concepts like religion and philosophy are concerned with those questions and try to provide answers to them. Nevertheless, there are still no satisfying explanations. This is due to the fact that "our actual lived experience has no form or unity in itself, but is full of contingent rubble, accident, and unsystematized detail which may resist our attempts at unity" (Antonaccio & Schweiker, Human Goodness 111). As our world is contingent, it cannot be completely understood. Consequently, we should accept its contingency instead of denying it by trying to find an explanation to everything. The stress ratio between contingency and necessity is also the theme of Iris Murdoch's first novel Under the Net. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Jake Donaghue searches for his own identity and for a master theory which is able to explain the world (cf. Porter, Leitmotiv 379). In the end, he realizes that he has to change his attitude towards contingency. In the following, I will try to find reasons for the change of Jake's attitude, and I will describe the consequences of this change. In order to be able to do this, I will first provide a definition of the term 'contingency' and place it in the context of philosophy in chapter 2. Afterwards, I will explain some essential aspects of contingency in the novel in chapter 3. In chapter 4, I will have a look at Jake's changing attitude towards contingency in the course of the novel in order to, finally, be able to find reasons for the change and to describe its consequences in chapter 5 and 6.

Under the Net

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 : 9780099458449
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Under the Net written by Iris Murdoch and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sea: turbulent and leaden, transparent and opaque, magician and mother... When Charles Arrowby, over sixty, a demi god of the theatre- director, playwright and actor - retires from his glittering London world in order to `abjure magic and become a hermit', it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from `the woman' - but unexpectedly meets one whom he loved long ago. His Buddhist cousin, James, also arrives. He is menaced by a monster from the deep. Charles finds his `solitude' peopled by the drama of his own fantasies and obsessions.

Under the Net

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495804
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Under the Net written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1977-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch's debut—a comic novel about work and love, wealth and fame Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Bellfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actress sister, Sadie. He resumes acquaintance with the formidable Hugo, whose ‘philosophy’ he once presumptuously dared to interpret. These meetings involve Jake and his eccentric servant-companion, Finn, in a series of adventures that include the kidnapping of a film-star dog and a political riot on a film set of ancient Rome. Jake, fascinated, longs to learn Hugo’s secret. Perhaps Hugo’s secret is Hugo himself? Admonished, enlightened, Jake hopes at last to become a real writer.

Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness

Author : Maria Antonaccio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226021126
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness written by Maria Antonaccio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.

Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495790
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defend any 'moral values' against the constant encroachments of technology? Indeed, are we in danger of losing most of the qualities which make us truly human? Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, thinkers and theologians—from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida—to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.

Iris Murdoch's Comic Vision

Author : Angela Hague
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780941664004
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch's Comic Vision written by Angela Hague and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at the comic dimension and ironic tone of Iris Murdoch's work and argues that these elements are as important to an understanding of her novels as is her use of mythic patterns and philosophical ideas.

The Flight from the Enchanter

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453200975
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Flight from the Enchanter written by Iris Murdoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charismatic businessman casts a dark spell over others in this psychologically suspenseful novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Black Prince. Mischa Fox’s name is known throughout London, though he himself is rarely seen. Enigmatic and desired, vicious yet sympathetic, he is a model of success, wealth, and charisma. When Fox turns his entrepreneurial gaze on a small feminist magazine known as the Artemis, his intoxicating influence quickly begins to affect the lives of those involved with the paper: the fragile editor, Hunter; generous Rosa, who splits her time and affections between her brother and two other men; innocent Annette, whose journey from school to the real world ends up being more fraught than she could have foreseen; and their circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom find themselves both drawn to and repulsed by Fox. Told with dark humor, keen wit, and intense insight into the seductive nature of power, The Flight from the Enchanter is an intricate and dazzling work of fiction from the author of The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).

Iris Murdoch and Her Work

Author : Mustafa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838260201
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and Her Work written by Mustafa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores different aspects of Murdoch's work including her philosophy and fiction, focusing 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, literature and philosophy students, as well as for general readers.

The Sandcastle

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495812
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Sandcastle written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1978-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sparklingly profound novel about the conflict between love and loyalty The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics, becomes aware of new desires. A complex battle develops, involving love, guilt, magic, art, and political ambition. Mor’s teenage children and their mother fight discreetly and ruthlessly against the invader. The Head, himself disenchanted, advises Mor to seize the girl and run. The final decision rests with Rain. Can a “great love” be purchased at too high a price?

Iris Murdoch Connected

Author : Mark Luprecht
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621900568
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch Connected written by Mark Luprecht and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Iris Murdoch was one of the most interesting and wide-ranging philosophers in recent British history. In addition to her five works on moral philosophy and existentalism, including Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, she was the author of twenty-five works of fiction, including The Sea, the Sea, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Black Prince, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. This collection reassesses her literary and philosophical output, focusing on her key literary works and the influence she had among contemporary philosophers" --

Iris Murdoch

Author : A. Rowe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625177
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by A. Rowe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine, develop or contest previous readings, and blur the distinction between liberal humanist and theoretical positions, suggesting negotiations between them.

Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing

Author : David J. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing written by David J. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more deeply and comprehensively than any previous critic the intellectual energies, and the ethical imperative of "unselfing", that inform her fiction. Gordon contends that the term fable best describes the kind of novel Murdoch writes because in each a mythmaking purpose interacts with a commitment to realism, shaping the erotic life of fictional characters into a spiritual pilgrimage on which they struggle, more or less unsuccessfully, to overcome the self-centeredness that keeps them away from the Good. The most original element in the fiction, Gordon argues, is not its striking modernization of Plato or its adaptations of nineteenth-century influences, but its intensely creative struggle with Freud. In developing his analysis of her themes, Gordon draws on Murdoch's work from throughout her forty-year career, showing how each novel grew out of its predecessors and in what ways each is original.

The Black Prince

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495685
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Black Prince written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-03-25 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradley Pearson, an unsuccessful novelist in his late fifties, has finally left his dull office job as an Inspector of Taxes. Bradley hopes to retire to the country, but predatory friends and relations dash his hopes of a peaceful retirement. He is tormented by his melancholic sister, who has decided to come live with him; his ex-wife, who has infuriating hopes of redeeming the past; her delinquent brother, who wants money and emotional confrontations; and Bradley's friend and rival, Arnold Baffin, a younger, deplorably more successful author of commercial fiction. The ever-mounting action includes marital cross-purposes, seduction, suicide, abduction, romantic idylls, murder, and due process of law. Bradley tries to escape from it all but fails, leading to a violent climax and a coda that casts shifting perspectives on all that has preceded.

The Philosopher's Pupil

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453200878
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher's Pupil written by Iris Murdoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York TimesNotable Book: An “ingeniously plotted” tale of tragedy, comedy, and small-town gossip (The New York Times Book Review). The quiet English town of Ennistone is known for its peaceful, relaxing spa—a haven of restoration, rejuvenation, and calm. Until the night George McCaffrey’s car plunges into the cold waters of the canal, carrying with it his wife, Stella. And until the village’s most celebrated son, famed philosopher John Robert Rozanov, returns home, upending the lives of everyone with whom he comes in contact. Stirred up by talk of murder and morality, obsession and lust, religion and righteousness, the residents of Ennistone begin to spiral out of control, searching for answers and redemption for the sins of their peers—and discovering more about themselves than they ever wanted to know. With breakneck plotting and intricately flawed characters, The Philosopher’s Pupil is a darkly humorous novel from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Sea, The Sea, masterfully exploring the human condition and the inherent blend of comedy and tragedy therein.

Nuns and Soldiers

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142180099
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Nuns and Soldiers written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling meditation on love and honor, greed and generosity, passion and death, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea Set in London and in the South of France, this brilliantly structured novel centers on two women: Gertrude Openshaw, bereft from the recent death of her husband, yet awakening to passion; and Anne Cavidge, who has returned in doubt from many years in a nunnery, only to encounter her personal Christ. A fascinating array of men and women hover in urgent orbit around them: the "Count," a lonely Pole obsessively reliving his émigré father's patriotic anguish; Tim Reede, a seedy yet appealing artist, and Daisy, his mistress; the manipulative Mrs. Mount; and many other magically drawn characters moving between desire and obligation, guilt and joy. This edition of Nuns and Soldiers includes a new introduction by renowned religious historian Karen Armstrong.

The Sea, The Sea

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495650
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Sea, The Sea written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Why Iris Murdoch Matters

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472574508
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Why Iris Murdoch Matters written by Gary Browning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in detail her engagement with the notion of late modernity. Her multiple perspectives on art, philosophy, religion, politics and the self all relate to how she understands the nature of late modernity. Browning lucidly illustrates that through both her thought and fiction we can grasp the significance of issues that remain of paramount importance today: the possibilities of a moral life without foundations, the meaning of philosophy in a post-metaphysical age, the prospects of politics without ideological certainties and the significance of art after realism. A totally original work arguing persuasively that Iris Murdoch not only matters but is absolutely central to how we think through the contemporary age.