Iris Murdoch: Texts and Contexts

Introduction; A.Rowe & A.Horner PART I: THEOLOGICAL AND VISIONARY CONTEXTS Iris Murdoch: A Case of Star-Friendship; D.Cupitt The Visionary Aspects of Iris Murdoch's Philosophy; H.Widdows PART II: POLITICS AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS Iris Murdoch and the Two Cultures: Science, Philosophy and the Novel; P.Waugh Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan and the Place of the Political in Contemporary Fiction; A.Rowe & S.Upstone PART III: THE DERRIDEAN CONTEXT Murdoch and Derrida: Holding Hands Under the Table; T.Milligan Murdoch, Derrida and The Black Prince; P.Fiddes Minding the Gap: Mourning in the Work of Murdoch and Derrida; P.Osborn PART IV: CONTEXTS OF POWER Iris Murdoch and Theodor Reik: Sado Masochism in The Black Prince; M.Luprecht Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti: Towards a Reassessment; E.Morley PART V: LITERARY CONTEXTS The 'wondrous necessary man': Canetti, The Unicorn and The Changeling; A.Horner A Post-Christian concept of Martyrdom and the Murdochian Chorus: The One Alone and T.S.Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral; F.White Language, Memory and Loss: Kristevan Psychoanalytical Perspectives on Intertextual Connections in the Work of Iris Murdoch and John Banville; W.Vaizey PART VI: BIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXTS The Influence of Childhood Reading on the Fiction of Iris Murdoch; J.Skinner Murdoch on Film: 'Re-seeing Reality' in Richard Eyre's Iris (2001); A.Ramon Bibliography Index