{"product_id":"9783031272158","title":"Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination (Iris Murdoch Today)","description":"This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e 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from across the world who expand the boundaries of recent criticism offering work not only on the novels, but on her unpublished poetry and archival materials.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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n 1 Introduction.- 2 'Of Science and of Light': Learning with Iris Murdoch.- 3 'In My Beginning Is My End': Threads and Themes from \u003ci\u003eUnder the Net to Jackson's Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e.- 4 'A Man Shut in a Glass': Textual Blindness and IrisMurdoch's \u003ci\u003eUnder the Net\u003c\/i\u003e (1954).- 5 'Now the Illumination': Iris Murdoch as Zen Philosopher-Poet.- 6 Iris Murdoch and \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e.- 7 Iris Murdoch, Australia and Me.- 8 'The Scrambled Script': Contingency and Necessity in Iris Murdoch's \u003ci\u003eThe Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e.- 9 'Adolescent Girls Attract Ghosts': Iris Murdoch and the Supernatural.- 10 Friendship, Sex, and the Moral Life in Iris Murdoch's Novels.- 11 Iris Murdoch and Goodness: How Good?. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiles Leeson \u003c\/b\u003eis the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester and Visiting Research Fellow at Kingston University. He is the lead editor of the Iris Murdoch Review and published \u003ci\u003eIris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist\u003c\/i\u003e in 2010, \u003ci\u003eIncest and Contemporary Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and the festschrift \u003ci\u003eIris Murdoch: A Centenary Celebration\u003c\/i\u003e (2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrances White \u003c\/b\u003eis Visiting Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester, editor of the \u003ci\u003eIris Murdoch Review\u003c\/i\u003e and Writer in Residence at Kingston University Writing School. She has published widely on Iris Murdoch and other writers, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt, T.S. Eliot and Stevie Smith. Her prize-winning biography \u003ci\u003eBecoming Iris Murdoch\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Kingston University Press in 2014. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48853588738283,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":177.91,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783031272158-1.jpg?v=1781717396","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783031272158","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}