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James E. Murdoch: American Actor
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Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagination
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Narrative techniques in the novels of Iris Murdoch
… concentration on the affiliations between Murdoch's fiction and philosophy, and have attempted to explore the relationship between her narrative techniques and the conventions of realism. In doing so, I use the narrative theory of Dorrit Cohn, who proposes that novelists concerned to render …
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Playful Platonist : The development of ideas in the novels of Iris Murdoch
This thesis examines Iris Murdoch's novels in the light of her philosophical thinking. It places her ethical thinking in the context of twentieth century moral philosophy and shows that her approach to the problems of the subject is out of key with the general run of contemporary philosophical …
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Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure
<p>Iris Murdoch's contention with narrative form, established in her essays and fiction, forms an ethics of activism that seeks to affirm the irreducibility of human difference against the violently reductionist tendencies of narrative form. Murdoch's call for an ethically responsible aesthetics of …
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Iris Murdoch and the art of imagination: imaginative philososphy as response to secularism
… of the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch. A centre concern of this work is a question Murdoch poses more than once: ‘How can we make ourselves morally better?” This question is understood to initiate a form of philosophy which is critical of much of its tradition and its …
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"Literary Incest": Intertextuality and Writing the Last Taboo in the Novels of Iris Murdoch
Abstract Throughout her literary oeuvre Iris Murdoch displayed a preoccupation with the theme of incest, a consideration which has not previously been examined in a full length critical study. Her portrayal of the incest taboo is examined here in relation to incest as an abusive practice, which is …
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Iris Murdoch's genealogy of the modern self : retrieving consciousness beyond the linguistic turn.
In this dissertation I argue that Murdoch's philosophical-ethical project is best understood as an anti-Enlightenment genealogical narrative. I maintain that her work consistently displays four fundamental features that typify genealogical accounts: 1) liberation (i.e., subversion) from a dominant …
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Art and Destruction : shared philosophies which shape the work of Iris Murdoch and A. S. Byatt
… the observation that water played a role in many Murdoch novels as did accounts of the wanton destruction of valuable possessions. Study of the works of AS Byatt revealed a similar interest in the human impulse to destroy and in the Byatt tetralogy published over a period of more than two decades …
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Media ownership and the exploitation of media power for corporate self-interest: a case study of News International's coverage of the BBC and OFcom
… newspapers owned by News International (Rupert Murdoch’s UK media company) where reporting on matters with regards to the British Broadcasting Corporation and Ofcom. The agenda, examined via the content analysis of the relevant articles published in three Murdoch owned newspapers compared with …
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AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND BECOMING GOOD: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND ETHICS IN PLATO, KANT, AND IRIS MURDOCH
… focus on the work of Plato, Kant, and Iris Murdoch, who all share the thesis that aesthetic experience has an ineluctable moral component, which enables it to play various roles in moral education and development. In chapter 1, I give an analysis of Plato's discussion of experiences of …
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Results on the interaction between atomistic and continuum models
… framework to study the Irving--Kirkwood and Murdoch--Hardy procedures used to obtain definitions for continuum fields in atomistic systems. We identify and investigate the following three problems. 1. Continuum fields derived for atomistic systems using the Irving--Kirkwood or the …
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Situating ‘Books of Travel’: Intertextuality in Antarctic Whaling Narratives 1892-1896
… Edinburgh to the Antarctic}$ by William Burn Murdoch and $\textit{The Cruise of the “Antarctic” to the South Polar Regions}$ by Henrik Bull are both travel narratives that detail the authors’ experiences on board Antarctic whaling vessels in the late nineteenth century. In Europe and …
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The Importance of Attention in Morality An Exploration of Iris Murdoch’s Philosophy
… of attention in morality as presented by Iris Murdoch. The aim is to offer a clear and detailed understanding of Murdoch’s concept of attention, its metaphysical presuppositions and its implications for morality, and, if Murdoch’s view as developed here is found to be plausible, to suggest how …
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The Ethics of Vision and Black Theology and Experience
… experience. In so doing, I focus chiefly on Iris Murdoch to engage black thought and experience, as it is presented by Martin Luther King Jr. and Emilie Townes. An engagement with these two sets of materials enriches our understanding of vision and expands our concept of moral agency.</p>
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Neglected Virtues: Love, Hope and Humility
… the connection between love and knowledge in Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good. Murdoch makes the strange suggestion that love is a form of knowledge. How do we reconcile this claim with love’s heterogeneous and messy everyday manifestations? I develop an interpretation of Murdochian love, …
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
… also with a number of philosophers, such as Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, María Lugones, Susan Neiman, and Miranda Fricker. What unites this diverse group of thinkers is their desire for lived experience to inform ethics—as, I argue, it does in the work of Levi, Arendt, and Baldwin. The thesis …
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Thrownness, Attunement, Attention: A Heideggerian Account of Responsibility
… analysis, and in dialogue with the work of Iris Murdoch. Through the use of the examples of the film 'Locke' and the novel 'Disgrace', I propose that attentiveness, with its accent on that which is beyond the subject, is a more appropriate way of conceiving responsibility on a Heideggerian …
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Six Archbishops and their ordinands: A study of the leadership provided by successive Archbishops of Perth in the recruitment and formation of clergy in Western Australia 1914-2005
… time when theological education is based at Murdoch University and is taught in an ecumenical setting with each participating church conducting its own programmes in the areas of pastoral care and ministry formation. The total process for the training of clergy presently in vogue is one in …
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