Iris Murdoch Under The Net

Bachner, Saskia: Contingency in Iris Murdoch's "Under the Net" GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, September 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3640154533
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies, printed single-sided, grade: 1,3, University of Mannheim, course: British Literature of the 50's, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: All human beings have a deep need for necessity in their lives. We want to know why we exist, we want to understand the world and its secrets, and we want to know our place in the world. Concepts like religion and philosophy are concerned with those questions and try to provide answers to them. Nevertheless, there are still no satisfying explanations. This is due to the fact that our actual lived experience has no form or unity in itself, but is full of contingent rubble, accident, and unsystematized detail which may resist our attempts at unity (Antonaccio & Schweiker, Human Goodness 111). As our world is contingent, it cannot be completely understood. Consequently, we should accept its contingency instead of denying it by trying to find an explanation to everything.The stress ratio between contingency and necessity is also the theme of Iris Murdoch's first novel Under the Net. Throughout the novel, the protagonist Jake Donaghue searches for his own identity and for a master theory which is able to explain the world (cf. Porter, Leitmotiv 379). In the end, he realizes that he has to change his attitude towards contingency.In the following, I will try to find reasons for the change of Jake's attitude, and I will describe the consequences of this change. In order to be able to do this, I will first provide a definition of the term 'contingency' and place it in the context of philosophy in chapter 2. Afterwards, I will explain some essential aspects of contingency in the novel in chapter 3. In chapter 4, I will have a look at Jake's changing attitude towards contingency in the course of the novel in order to, finally, be able to find reasons for the change and to describe its consequences in chapter 5 and 6.

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Under the Net: a Novel (Unknown Binding) by Iris Murdoch (Author) ISBN: B001NFA4E8

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Fernandes, Ana Raquel Lourenco: What about the rogue? Survival and metamorphosis in contemporary British literature and culture. Followed by an interview with David Lodge. Comparatisme et societe No. 15. Bruxelles : PIE Lang, 2011. ISBN: 9789052017334
Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Rogue Revisited -- The Rogue and the Literature of Roguery: A Case of Fortune in the Development of the Novel: The Rogue: An Intersection of History, Law and Literature -- The Confidence Man: A Development of the Rogue -- The Rogue Nowadays: -- Still Haunting English Language and Literature? -- The Turning Point: The Rogue in the Second Half of the 20th Century: The Rogue as an Artist: Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth (1944) and Iris Murdoch's Under the Net (1954) -- Moulding Identity: Aesthetics and Society in Joyce Cary -- 'It's just one of the wonders of the world': -- James Donaghue in Under the Net -- The Rogue Revisited in the 1950s -- John Wain's Hurry on Down (1953), Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) -- and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957) -- Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958): A Rebel with a Cause -- Angry Novels in 'New Wave' Films: Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1958) and Karel Reisz's Saturday Night -- and Sunday Morning (1960) -- Alfie: Cultural Change and Continuity 1960-2000 -- The Rogue in the 1980s and Onwards: Transformations in the British Literary Scene: The Rogue in Martin Amis's Novels -- Martin Amis's Money: A Suicide Note (1984) -- Martin Amis's London Fields (1989) -- Yellow Dog (2003): Is it Unusual? -- The Rogue and Irvine Welsh's Scottish Fiction -- Trainspotting (1993): Novel, Play and Film -- Where the 'Literary' and 'Pop' Meet -- Glue (2001): Sticking Together Even When Falling Apart -- Irvine Welsh's Porno (2002): From Skag to Pornography. Celebrating the Hangover of Youth. ISBN 9789052017334 - , ISBN: 9052017336

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Nirmal Datta Illustrator: NA: Iris Murdoch: Freedom and Form, Macmillan Publishers India 2000 ISBN: 9780333934562

New Hardcover 13 x 21 cm. Iris Murdoch (1919aEUR"99) the distinguished and accomplished British novelist is famous for her twenty-six brilliant novels one of which was awarded the Booker Prize. Freedom and Form is an in-depth study of moral and psychological freedom in the context of some important and representative novels of the author. Contents Freedom and the Image of Man aEURc The Unicorn: Enchanter and the Enchanted aEURc Under the Net: Flight from Theory aEURc The Bell: Voice of Love aEURc An Unofficial Rose: Unkempt Rose of Virtue aEURc The Nice and the Good: Justice and Love aEURc BrunoaEUR s Dream: Death aEUR" the Iconoclast aEURc The Black Prince: Art and Truth aEURc The Sea, The Sea: Obsession Shrinks Reality aEURc Conclusion: Towards Partial Freedom aEURc Bibliography aEURc Index Printed Pages: 232. First edition

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