Iris Murdoch

The Retrospective Fiction

By: B. Nicol

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Hardcover | 8 June 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Iris Murdoch: the Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the postwar years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are motivated by the insistent power of the past. Bran Nicol traces a fascinating 'double movement' at work in Murdoch's fiction, where the past figures as an elusive site of 'truth' and an inescapable source of trauma. Through persuasive readings of some of her key novels Nicol demonstrates that the past is continually made present in Murdoch's fiction in a number of ways: through guilt, nostalgia, the uncanny, and also by way of art and rational investigation. The book is the first to examine her 'first-person retrospective novels' as a separate group within the larger body of her work. In these novels, the concern with the past is intensified by the peculiar synthesis of form and content. The book also provides an accessible and lively consideration of how Murdoch's fiction and theory relate to some of the key currents of twentieth-century thought: postmodernism and poststructuralism, Bakhtin's poetics, modernism and psychoanalysis

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Preface and Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. xiv
Revisiting the Sublime and the Beautiful: Iris Murdoch's Realism	p. 1
The Insistence of the Past	p. 31
Author and Hero: Murdoch's First-Person Retrospective Novels	p. 52
Reading Past Truth: Under the Net and The Black Prince	p. 77
The Writing Cure: A Severed Head and A Word Child	p. 99
The Ambivalence of Coming Home: The Italian Girl and The Sea, the Sea	p. 123
Notes	p. 145
Select Bibliography and References	p. 155
Index	p. 162
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