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Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also reveals startling parallels between Murdoch's work and other literary and philosophical texts.

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Introduction

Rowe Anne; Horner Avril

1-8

Iris Murdoch

Cupitt Don

11-16

The visionary aspects of Iris Murdoch's philosophy

Widdows Heather

17-29

Iris Murdoch and the two cultures

Waugh Patricia

33-58

Iris Murdoch, Ian McEwan and the place of the political in contemporary fiction

Rowe Anne; Upstone Sara

59-73

Murdoch and Derrida

Milligan Tony

77-90

Murdoch, Derrida and the black Prince

Fiddes Paul S.

91-109

Minding the gap

Osborn Pamela

110-125

Iris Murdoch and Theodor Reik

Luprecht Mark

129-144

Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti

Morley Elaine

145-159

The "wondrous necessary man"

Horner Avril

163-176

A post-christian concept of martyrdom and the Murdochian chorus

White Frances

177-191

Language, memory and loss

Vaizey Wendy

192-206

The influence of childhood reading on the fiction of Iris Murdoch

Skinner Janfarie

209-224

Murdoch on film

Ramon Alex

225-238