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Construction Of Good And Evil In Iris Murdoch'S Discourse

by Margaret L. Pachuau
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788126908097
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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  • Pages: 128
  • Original Price: 295.0 INR
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 150 grams

A prominent experience of the post-war European generation was the acute inquiry about whether life was intrinsically good or evil, and of the good and evil combining to make the world what it is. These divided moral forces figure distinctively in the fiction of Iris Murdoch, one of the most prolific and serious contemporary novelists. She examines the nature of, and the relations between good and evil, innocence and experience, God and the devil. This book explores the concepts of good and evil as presented by Murdoch in relation to the structure of Christian theology pertaining to the same concepts.
Murdoch’s world is not an isolated world and it is one that is open to humane and communal fraternity. She questions the relationships that humans have with the center along with the centrality of many of our human assumptions. She recognizes at the same time the deep human need to be continually reseeking and redefining the center. She also denotes several themes in her text. These include elements of comedy, love, myth, magic and the supernatural.
The present book attempts to delve into the experiences of the post-war European mind and the dilemma between good and evil through texts of Iris Murdoch. Beginning with an introduction to Murdoch as a novelist and her contribution to literature, the book elucidates and validates the concepts of good and evil in the backdrop of Christian religion in her selected texts. In addition, it analyses the Greek and Hebrew traditions as well as language content of the characters. The book will undoubtedly prove useful to students, teachers and researchers of English literature.

Margaret L. Pachuau completed her Postgraduation, M.Phil. as well as Ph.D. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has taught literature in English at the undergraduate as well as postgraduate levels at Mizoram University for six years. She is currently working as a lecturer at the Department of English, Mizoram University, Aizawl.
Dr. Pachuau has worked on writers of the diaspora such as V.S. Naipaul, M.G. Vassanji and Bharati Mukherjee. She has also published a book on writers of the diaspora entitled The Experience of Expatriation (2007). A keen researcher in the nuances of translation and transcreation, she has several works of translation from her mother tongue Mizo to English. These have been published in a volume entitled The Heart of the Matter: KATHA (New Delhi, 2004). Her works have also been published in New Frontiers, a journal of the North East Writers Forum.