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  1. The grateful dead
    the history of a folk story
    Published: 1908
    Publisher:  Nutt, London

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Series: Publications of the Folk-Lore Society ; 60
    Subjects: Barmherzigkeit <Motiv>; Selbstlosigkeit <Motiv>; Erlösung <Motiv>; Helfer <Motiv>; Märchen
    Scope: X, 177, 16 S.
  2. Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Univ. of Missouri Press, Columbia [u.a.]

    Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more... more

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    Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more deeply and comprehensively than any previous critic the intellectual energies, and the ethical imperative of "unselfing," that inform her fiction. Gordon contends that the term fable best describes the kind of novel Murdoch writes because in each a mythmaking purpose interacts with a commitment to realism, shaping the erotic life of fictional characters into a spiritual pilgrimage on which they struggle, more or less unsuccessfully, to overcome the self-centeredness that keeps them away from the Good The most original element in the fiction, Gordon argues, is not its striking modernization of Plato or its adaptations of nineteenth-century influences, but its intensely creative struggle with Freud. In developing his analysis of her themes, Gordon draws on Murdoch's work from throughout her forty-year career, showing how each novel grew out of its predecessors and in what ways each is original

     

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  3. The disease to please
    curing the people-pleasing syndrome
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  McGraw-Hill, New York [u.a.]

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  4. Santa's outback secret
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Random House Australia, North Sydney, NSW

    Internationale Jugendbibliothek
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780857982254; 0857982257
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Santa Claus / Juvenile fiction; Christmas stories, Australian; Christmas stories, Australian; Santa Claus; Notlage; Selbstlosigkeit; Geheimnis; Weihnachtsmann
    Scope: [16] Bl., überw. Ill.
  5. Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fiction
    the heroine of disinterest
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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  6. Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth century fiction
    the heroine of disinterest
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
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  7. Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fiction
    the heroine of disinterest
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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  8. Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Univ. of Missouri Press, Columbia [u.a.]

    Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more deeply and comprehensively than any previous critic the intellectual energies, and the ethical imperative of "unselfing," that inform her fiction. Gordon contends that the term fable best describes the kind of novel Murdoch writes because in each a mythmaking purpose interacts with a commitment to realism, shaping the erotic life of fictional characters into a spiritual pilgrimage on which they struggle, more or less unsuccessfully, to overcome the self-centeredness that keeps them away from the Good The most original element in the fiction, Gordon argues, is not its striking modernization of Plato or its adaptations of nineteenth-century influences, but its intensely creative struggle with Freud. In developing his analysis of her themes, Gordon draws on Murdoch's work from throughout her forty-year career, showing how each novel grew out of its predecessors and in what ways each is original

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0826210287
    RVK Categories: HN 6355
    Subjects: Selbstlosigkeit; Roman
    Other subjects: Murdoch, Iris - Critique et interprétation; Murdoch, Iris <1919-1999> - Critique et interprétation; Murdoch, Iris <1919-> - Criticism and interpretation; Murdoch, Iris; Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999)
    Scope: XII, 199 S.
  9. Iris Murdoch's fables of unselfing /
    Published: 1995.
    Publisher:  Univ. of Missouri Press,, Columbia [u.a.] :

    Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Like Jane Austen and Henry James, but also like Fyodor Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch is a keen student of those egoistic obsessions that cloud our moral understanding. In Iris Murdoch's Fables of Unselfing, David J. Gordon probes more deeply and comprehensively than any previous critic the intellectual energies, and the ethical imperative of "unselfing," that inform her fiction. Gordon contends that the term fable best describes the kind of novel Murdoch writes because in each a mythmaking purpose interacts with a commitment to realism, shaping the erotic life of fictional characters into a spiritual pilgrimage on which they struggle, more or less unsuccessfully, to overcome the self-centeredness that keeps them away from the Good The most original element in the fiction, Gordon argues, is not its striking modernization of Plato or its adaptations of nineteenth-century influences, but its intensely creative struggle with Freud. In developing his analysis of her themes, Gordon draws on Murdoch's work from throughout her forty-year career, showing how each novel grew out of its predecessors and in what ways each is original

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0-8262-1028-7
    RVK Categories: HN 6355
    Subjects: Roman; Selbstlosigkeit
    Other subjects: Murdoch, Iris - Critique et interprétation; Murdoch, Iris <1919-1999> - Critique et interprétation; Murdoch, Iris <1919-> - Criticism and interpretation; Murdoch, Iris; Murdoch, Iris (1919-1999)
    Scope: XII, 199 S.
  10. Property, education, and identity in late eighteenth-century fiction :
    the heroine of disinterest /
    Published: 2009.
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan,, Basingstoke [u.a.] :

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 978-0-230-22023-2
    RVK Categories: HK 1091 ; HK 1274
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: English fiction / 18th century / History and criticism; Heroines in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Social classes in literature; English fiction; Heroines in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Social classes in literature; Englisch.; Roman.; Heldin <Motiv>; Selbstlosigkeit <Motiv>
    Scope: VIII, 180 S. ;, 23 cm.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-175) and index