Titlebook: Iris Murdoch; Figures Of Good Suguna Ramanathan Book 1990 Suguna Ramanathan 1990 Britain.history of literature.literature.modern philosophy

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William Eastcote in ,ess. Different kinds of genuine spirituality as embodied in different religious traditions are carefully examined, the valuable in them lovingly offset against the surrounding charlatanism, and then a movement made to a further position inward. Denudation is an inextricable part of the exploration.

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Stuart Cuno in ,od apprentice’ of the title, has left Puritanism behind. While the chapters thus far have taken account of the changing role of religion in the Western world, the figures studied have been shaped by different religious traditions. With Stuart the forms have disappeared; he is not moulded by these tr

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Jenkin Riderhood in ,ere is a notable absence of background or structure. There is not much explanation of him, and he offers none; there are very few exchanges on the issue of the good between him and the other characters; he is more stripped than even Stuart Cuno. Stuart had spoken of ‘seeing’ good; Jenkin shows good

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The Message to the Planet,. Thus far, goodness, despite the forces arrayed against it, has carried the sense of an inviolable presence; however peripheral, it has had a centrality, an authorial authority; it has been clearly recognisable. Now, however, with this most recent novel, all the pieces are up in the air again as Mu

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Brendan Craddock in ,ts truth, but his exchanges with Cato, also a priest in the same order, indicate the beginnings of a progressive demystification. With each successive novel after this one, the governing idea of good is increasingly pared till it reaches a stage of unselfconsciousness and simplicity that would be hard to surpass.

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The Message to the Planet, of the novel, is not easily recognisable as such to the reader who sees Christ through the mist of Christianity. It is as if Murdoch has come to the end of what may be said about the mystery of simple goodness and now turns her attention to the separation and apartness of the extraordinary, ‘holy’ individual.

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