Introduction

Anne Rowe, Avril Horner

1-8

Iris Murdoch

a case of star-friendship

Don Cupitt

11-16

The visionary aspects of Iris Murdoch's philosophy

Heather Widdows

17-29

Iris Murdoch and the two cultures

science, philosophy and the novel

Patricia Waugh

33-58

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

Anne Rowe, Sara Upstone

59-73

Murdoch and Derrida

holding hands under the table

Tony Milligan

77-90

Murdoch, Derrida and the black Prince

Paul S. Fiddes

91-109

Minding the gap

mourning in the work of Murdoch and Derrida

Pamela Osborn

110-125

Iris Murdoch and Theodor Reik

sado-masochism in the black Prince

Mark Luprecht

129-144

Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti

towards a reassessment

Elaine Morley

145-159

The "wondrous necessary man"

Canetti, the unicorn and the changeling

Avril Horner

163-176

A post-christian concept of martyrdom and the Murdochian chorus

the one alone and T. S. Eliot's murder in the cathedral

Frances White

177-191

Language, memory and loss

Kristevan psychoanalytical perspectives on intertextual connections in the work of Murdoch and banville

Wendy Vaizey

192-206

The influence of childhood reading on the fiction of Iris Murdoch

Janfarie Skinner

209-224

Murdoch on film

"re-seeing reality" in Richard Eyre's Iris (2001)

Alex Ramón

225-238