Titlebook: Iris Murdoch; A Reassessment Anne Rowe (Senior Lecturer in English Literature) Book 2007 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publis

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Attention, Self and n ways that could not be seen from the point of view of the contemporary moral psychology. ‘[M]oral philosophy’, she wrote, ‘should be laid aside […] until we have an adequate philosophy of psychology, in which we are conspicuously lacking’ (p. 1). This idea influenced many ethicists in Iris Murdoch

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The Curse of ,: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Narrativee behaviour of her characters and the events depicted in her plots exemplify or compromise her ethical principles. This is understandable given the remarkable clarity and consistency of her moral philosophy over four decades, the similarity between the scenarios repeatedly presented in her novels an

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Houses of Fiction: Iris Murdoch and Henry Jamesked that she had a Jamesian style but ‘very unJamesian subject matter’.. But ., published in the same year, is strikingly Jamesian in subject matter. Indeed, the Jamesian influence can be perceived earlier, both in themes — what are Rowland Mallett and Roderick Hudson but the saint and the artist? —

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‘Policemen in a Search Team’: Iris Murdoch’s , and Ian McEwan’s lenged and calls for a new eclecticism that restores authority to the text were being voiced.. These novels, both written at transitional periods in literary criticism, self-referentially engage with contemporary debates about authorship and the value of literature: each novel enacts a rigorous eval

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Plato, Foucault and Beyond: Ethics, Beauty and Bisexuality in esentations of gender and sexuality, one must fully consider the author’s moral stance, especially the impact that Platonism had on her views on sexuality and ethics. I hope to demonstrate that, in displaying an interest in these themes, Murdoch’s work provides a forum for a consideration of other c