The Eternal Recurrence of Oedipus: A Deleuzean Reading of Love and Ethics in Iris Murdoch’s<i>The Sandcastle</i>

Ghaffary, Mohammad

doi:10.1080/00111619.2020.1790490

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“…As yet, Deleuzean concepts have not been analyzed in The Unicorn, and the Deleuzean approach has been only adopted to study Murdoch's early novels. The present study's attempt at presenting a Deleuzean reading of this novel could be seen as an addition to exploring Murdoch's fictional universe from a Deleuzean perspective initiated by Mohammad Ghaffary and Alireza Anushiravani (2016). They adopt Deleuze's ethical theory for analyzing the meaning of life in Murdoch's The Flight from the Enchanter (1956), focusing on a character who in the end succeeds in escaping majoritarian structures through the recognition of the "immanent force of life" (182) in a reactive society.…”

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“…Ghaffary (2019) concludes that Murdoch's text is a "becoming-text," that is, there is no pre-given, single meaning in or behind the text. On Ghaffary's (2021) Deleuzean reading of Murdoch's The Sandcastle (1957), William Mor's "dis-organ-ization" is not self-initiated; rather, "other external forces provoke him to take the road" to becoming-active (229). The most recent Deleuzean reading of Murdoch's fiction focuses on The Unicorn and the issue of freedom.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Art as immanent liberation : a Deleuzean study of the role of art in Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn

Ghaffary,

Ramzi

2023

Brno Studies in English

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Art has a critical place in Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn (1963) where it is closely intertwined with freedom. However, to date this aspect of the novel has been largely overlooked. The present study adopts a Deleuzean approach to examine the liberating role of art in this novel as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of "minor art" can shed new light on the novel's thematic structure. The present study shows the effects of (minor) literature and music on the protagonist, namely Hannah Crean-Smith. This study, then, offers a Deleuzean reading of the intertextual relations in The Unicorn to explore the potential of the other texts addressed in the novel and to investigate their impact on actualizing Hannah's will to power. The results show that the virtual powers of the novel Hannah reads, together with her interest in music, de-subjectify and liberate her from the bounds of familialism and organism.

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Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%