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Sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's fiction

Title: Sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's fiction / Tammy Grimshaw.
Author: Grimshaw, Tammy, 1962-
Publication: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2005], ©2005.

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261 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This study explores the overlooked themes of sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's fiction, particularly the interplay of power, gender, and sexuality in her characters' personal and social relationships. Gender and sexuality were important topics for Murdoch to consider in her fiction because her views on aesthetics and philosophy were integral to her representation of these themes. Accordingly, Murdoch's representation of gender and sexuality demonstrates her preoccupation with realism and morality, as well as her insistence on individual autonomy and freedom of choice." "The study concludes that just as it is generally difficult to classify the genders and sexualities of Murdoch's characters, the author's narrative style also evades classification under traditional rubrics of gender or artistic achievement."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.

Contents

1. Sexuality, gender, and power in Iris Murdoch's thought and art -- 2. The social construction of homosexuality in Murdoch's fiction -- 3. Iris Murdoch and Simone de Beauvoir : a feminist reading of Murdoch's fiction -- 4. A Foucauldian reading of The bell and A fairly honourable defeat -- 5. A Foucauldian reading of A severed head and The time of the angels -- 6. "Bisexuality" in Henry and Cato and The book and the brotherhood -- 7. Transvestism in The philosopher's pupil, The green knight, and The black prince -- 8. Contradictions, paradoxes, and reconciliations.

ISBN

0838640613 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004028885

OCLC

OCM57211124
SCSB-5215804

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Columbia University Libraries