‘If I could have given Willy my full attention this morning’: Ethics as Perceptive Attention in Iris Murdoch’s The Nice and the Good

The Nice and the Good is one of Murdoch’s ‘open’ novels (Conradi), which privileges the ways of exposure to the other. This it does by resorting to generic heterogeneity, using the conventions of the thriller and mixing them up with those of romantic comedy (as underlined by many critics), adding to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jean-Michel Ganteau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2020-12-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/10076

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