Iris Murdoch's Scenes: "Progress" on the Anth.

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Iris Murdoch's Scenes: An Anthology of Moral Imaginations

In this age of the Ethical Turn, we seek considerations of Iris Murdoch's philosophical influences and encounters, her vast literary production, her flashing insights in interviews, all kept close faith with the value and mystery of the limited, often eccentric, individual other and the difficult work of responsibly encountering reality. As the Humanities engage with questions from the geopolitical to the personal regarding the other, Iris Murdoch's work presents one model worthy of emulation, question, and adaptation to the concerns we face in our present contexts.

This anthology, inspired by the Moral Imagination panel at the 2005 MLA, seeks to collect essays from both established and emerging scholars in the Humanities. Both discipline specific and interdisciplinary works are encouraged and may address any of or any combination of the following topics.

The call and deadline are herein revised to invite papers that will balance out the anthology:

Aesthetics: literary influences on the novels, contemporary critical approaches to the novels.

Philosophy: the influence of Murdoch’s work on other philosophers, connections between Murdoch's philosophy and that of other major philosophers or theorists of subjectivity and/or gender.

History and Imagination: relations between Murdoch's novels and/or philosophy and the history of the twentieth century, and implications of her work for future humanist ventures.

Revised Deadline for Submissions is August 21, 2007. The anthology will be published by McFarland Press, hopefully by late 2008. Editors work closely with authors.

Requirements: Essays should run between 7-9,000 words, and follow the most recent MLA documentation format. Electronic submissions should arrive as attachments in Microsoft Word. All submissions require cover letter including an author bio, title of essay, and a brief abstract. Blind submissions, please. The author's name should not appear on the essay.

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Co-editors: Dr. Alison Scott-Baumann, University of Gloucestershire

Dr. David Garrett Izzo, Fayetteville State University, NC