Oxford University Press, 2000. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-19-513171-1, 0-19-516660-4. Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0-19-513171-1, 0-19-516660-4. Iris Murdoch has long been known as one of the most deeply insightful and morally passionate novelists of our time. This attention has often eclipsed Murdoch's sophisticated and influential work as a philosopher, which has had a wide-ranging impact on thinkers in moral philosophy as well as religious...
University of South Carolina Press, 1993. — 216 p. — ISBN: 1-57003-982-8, 978-1-57003-982-9. A dominant figure of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) wrote more than twenty-five novels, a collection of poems, and a half-dozen philosophical studies. In Understanding Iris Murdoch, Cheryl Bove divides Murdoch's work into two broad categories - the ironic tragedy...
2nd Edition. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. — xviii, 201 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4039-1665-5, 978-0-230-28858-4. Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction traces the preoccupation in Murdoch's fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, haunting us and eluding our attempts to grasp it. This argument was given an extra resonance by the death of Murdoch after Alzheimer's disease in...
Palgrave Macmillan 2010. — xxii, 202 p. — (Literary Lives). — ISBN: 978-1-349-52505-8, 978-0-230-28296-4. This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical...
Basingtoke: Palgrave Pivot, 2013 — 124 p. — ISBN10: 1137352418; ISBN13: 978-1137352415. This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection, this volume will...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. — xii, 243 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-21056-5, 978-1-349-21054-1, 978-0-312-04504-3. In examin ing the religious and moral preoccupations of Iris Murdoch's later fiction, this study seeks to bring them into clearer focus by concentrating on a single 'good' figure from each of the six novels which preceded the latest. Each of these novels provides, for the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1990. — xii, 243 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-21056-5, 978-1-349-21054-1, 978-0-312-04504-3. In examin ing the religious and moral preoccupations of Iris Murdoch's later fiction, this study seeks to bring them into clearer focus by concentrating on a single 'good' figure from each of the six novels which preceded the latest. Each of these novels provides, for the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — xix, 217 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-28115-2, 978-0-230-62517-4. This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine, develop or contest previous readings, and blur the distinction between liberal humanist and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — xii, 246 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-34551-9, 978-1-137-27136-5. Using unpublished archive material, including correspondence and the many annotations Murdoch made to the books held in her Oxford library, this book offers fresh insights into Murdoch's work by placing it within a diversity of new contexts. It also reveals startling parallels between...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 198 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-30947-4, 978-0-230-27722-9. Iris Murdoch and Morality provides a close focus on moral issues in Murdoch's novels, philosophy and theology. It situates Murdoch within current theoretical debates and develops an understanding of her work as a crucial link between twentieth and twenty-first century writing and theory.
Macmillan Education, 1995. — xiv, 140p. — (Macmillan Modern Novelists). — ISBN: 978-0-333-51924-0, 978-1-349-24095-1. Iris Murdoch produced twenty-six novels in forty years. The last of these, Jackson's Dilemma, was published in 1995, four years before her death. Murdoch's interest in moral problems inclined her towards what could be seen as an unusual view of human character...
Macmillan Education, 1995. — xiv, 140 p. — (Macmillan Modern Novelists). — ISBN: 978-0-333-51924-0, 978-1-349-24095-1. Iris Murdoch produced twenty-six novels in forty years. The last of these, Jackson's Dilemma, was published in 1995, four years before her death. Murdoch's interest in moral problems inclined her towards what could be seen as an unusual view of human character...
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