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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b8242153.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Fables of Unselfing -- 1. The Critique of Freedom: Solipsism and Love -- 2. Paths to the Good -- 3. Power, Magic, and Narrative Authority -- 4. Causality, Humanism, and the Spectrum of Tragicomedy -- 5. The Good Apprentice: 1954-1966 -- 6. The Major Phase: 1968-1985 -- 7. What the Age Requires: The Late Novels -- Conclusion: Murdoch's Ambitiousness.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xii, 199 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing.".
- catalog identifier "0826210287 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing.".
- catalog subject "823/.914 20".
- catalog subject "Murdoch, Iris Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PR6063.U7 Z663 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Fables of Unselfing -- 1. The Critique of Freedom: Solipsism and Love -- 2. Paths to the Good -- 3. Power, Magic, and Narrative Authority -- 4. Causality, Humanism, and the Spectrum of Tragicomedy -- 5. The Good Apprentice: 1954-1966 -- 6. The Major Phase: 1968-1985 -- 7. What the Age Requires: The Late Novels -- Conclusion: Murdoch's Ambitiousness.".
- catalog title "Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing / David J. Gordon.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".