Exploring Aesthetic Perception of the Real in Iris Murdoch’S the Black Prince

1. Murdoch, Iris, The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts, 1970 (London: Routledge, 1989), 64.

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2. Dipple, Elizabeth, Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983), 115.

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3. All citations from the novel refer to: Murdoch, Iris, The Black Prince (New York: Penguin, 1975).

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4. Dipple, p. 110.

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5. Conradi, Peter, J., The Saint and the Artist: A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch (London: Harper Collins, 2001), 240.

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6. Dipple, p. 114.

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7. Gordon, David, “Iris Murdoch’s Comedies of Unselfing,” Twentieth Century Literature. 36.2 (1990): 115–37.

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8. Murdoch, Iris, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, 1982 (London: Penguin, 1992), 179.

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9. The Sovereignty of Good OverOther Concepts, p. 86.

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10. Murdoch, Iris, “The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists,” 1976, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature, ed. Peter Conradi (New York: Penguin, 1999), 386–463; 461.

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11. Ibid., p. 453.

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12. Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, p. 247.

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13. I am interested in the active reader, who revisits Murdoch’s novel for the purpose of understanding its truth, not simply the reader who reads just for cursory knowledge. As Roman Ingarden mentions, the serious consumer of art or scholar’s “whole effort is aimed at pressing forward to the characteristic form of the work, foregoing his own recreation of a new reconstruction of it.” See The Cognition of the L iterary Work of Art, trans. R. Crowley and K. Olson (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1973), 349.

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14. “Images should not be resting places, but pointers toward higher truth,” Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, p. 318.

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15. Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, p. 315.

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16. See Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, p. 377.

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17. Dipple, p 113.

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18. Antonaccio, Maria, Picturing the Human: T he Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000).

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19. Antonaccio, p. 94.

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20. For additional allusions of Bradley’s name, see Dipple, p. 110.

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