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A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407074954
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I feel there are demons around.' Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He's thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

A Fairly Honourable Defeat

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1784875597
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book A Fairly Honourable Defeat written by Iris Murdoch and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I feel there are demons around.' Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert, he is a mystery. For Morgan, Hilda's tormented sister, he is an obsession. For Morgan's abandoned husband, Tallis, he is the source of ruin. For Simon and Axel, deeply in love, he stirs up jealousy and unease. What is Julius thinking about? He's thinking about Hilda, Rupert, Morgan, Tallis, Simon and Axel, and they will not all survive his malevolent attention. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GARTH GREENWELL VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407019341
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Sandcastle (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's all dry sand running through the fingers.' When Bill Mor falls in love with Rain Carter he discovers a new way of being and a new joy in the world and his surroundings. To be with Rain he must abandon his prosaic life as a schoolmaster, his domineering wife Nan and his troubled teenaged children. He must draw on the powers of selfishness, hatred and anger in order to make the final break. But what love could survive all that violence? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BIDISHA VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

Under The Net (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407018337
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Under The Net (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is real life, Jake,' she said. 'You'd better wake up.' Jake is clever, lazy and scraping by in London as a hack translator. Jake loves Anna. Anna is an elusive and lovely singer. Anna loves Hugo. Hugo is a fireworks manufacturer turned movie producer and majestic philosopher. Hugo loves Sadie. Sadie is a glossy and dazzling film starlet. Of course, Sadie loves Jake. Then there's Marvellous Mister Mars, the famous hound, who might or might not be Jake's ticket up and out of this mess. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLOTTE MENDELSON VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

The Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409078760
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Bell (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this holy community she would play the witch.' Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can neither live in the world, nor out of it. But beneath the gentle daily routines of this community run currents of supressed desire, religious yearning and a legend of disastrous love. Charming, indolent Dora arrives in their midst, and half-unwittingly conjures these submerged things to the surface. 'A tragi-comic masterpiece... a magnificent novel.' Susan Hill, The Lady WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH PERRY VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

The Black Prince (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 140902296X
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Black Prince (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.' 'A source of wonders and delight' Spectator Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels, Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement to writing a masterpiece. But the doorbell and the phone keep ringing, and every ring brings with it an ex-wife, a friend in need, a sister in trouble or a young woman seeking a teacher, and so dusty, selfish Bradley is plunged into the muddles and mysteries which will end in his doom. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1973. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE HANNAH VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

The Sea, The Sea (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409043584
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Sea, The Sea (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series) written by Iris Murdoch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''I saw a monster rising from the waves.' **A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK** **Winner of the Man Booker Prize 1978** Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the heady world of the theatre where he made his name, and there he swims in the sea, eats revolting meals and writes his memoirs. But then he meets his childhood sweetheart Hartley, and memories of her lovely, younger self crowd in - along with more recent lovers and friends - to disrupt his self-imposed exile. So instead of 'learning to be good', Charles proceeds to demonstrate how very bad he can be. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAISY JOHNSON VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Author : Julia Theresa Meszaros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019876586X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch written by Julia Theresa Meszaros and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 2012 under title: Selfless love and human flourishing: a theological and a secular perspective in dialogue.

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Author : Julia T. Meszaros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191078360
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch written by Julia T. Meszaros and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up, rather than undermine, the lover's self. It proposes that while the implausibility of selfless love was furthered by the modern deconstruction of the self, both Tillich and Murdoch utilize this very deconstruction towards explicating and restoring the link between selfless love and human flourishing. Julia T. Meszaros shows that they use the modern diagnosis of the human being's lack of a stable and independent self as manifest in Sartre's existentialism in support of an understanding of the self as relational and fallen. This leads them to view a loving orientation away from self and a surrender to the other as critical to the full flourishing of human selfhood. In arguing that Tillich and Murdoch defend the link between selfless love and human flourishing through reference to the human being's ontological selflessness, Meszaros closely engages Søren Kierkegaard's earlier attempt to keep selfless love and human flourishing in a productive, dialectical tension. She also examines the breakdown of this tension in the later figures of Anders Nygren, Simone Weil, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and addresses the pitfalls of this breakdown. Her examination concludes by arguing that the link between selfless love and human flourishing would be strengthened by a more resolute endorsement of a personal God, and of the reciprocal nature of selfless love.

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist

Author : Sofia de Melo Araújo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443830496
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist written by Sofia de Melo Araújo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist aims to gather some of the world’s present experts on Iris Murdoch, in an effort to promote dialogue between philosophy and literature. This is due not only to the nature of Iris Murdoch’s work itself, but also to our belief that within Humanistic Studies there is a constant need for breaking down disciplinarian barriers and reaching a deeper, fuller awareness of human thinking. Thus, the book brings together scholars from a variety of fields and places—Brazil, England, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Taiwan, and the United States—and testifies to the interest that the work of Murdoch continues to inspire. The book is divided into two major sections: Part A, Reading Philosophies in Literature, includes articles focusing on Iris Murdoch’s philosophical concerns and their general influence in her work; Part B, Reading Literature through Philosophy, is intended as a sort of application ground, a series of case-studies wherein authors depart from novels to retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking.

Why Iris Murdoch Matters

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472574508
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Why Iris Murdoch Matters written by Gary Browning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in detail her engagement with the notion of late modernity. Her multiple perspectives on art, philosophy, religion, politics and the self all relate to how she understands the nature of late modernity. Browning lucidly illustrates that through both her thought and fiction we can grasp the significance of issues that remain of paramount importance today: the possibilities of a moral life without foundations, the meaning of philosophy in a post-metaphysical age, the prospects of politics without ideological certainties and the significance of art after realism. A totally original work arguing persuasively that Iris Murdoch not only matters but is absolutely central to how we think through the contemporary age.

Iris Murdoch Connected

Author : Mark Luprecht
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621900568
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch Connected written by Mark Luprecht and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Iris Murdoch was one of the most interesting and wide-ranging philosophers in recent British history. In addition to her five works on moral philosophy and existentalism, including Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals, she was the author of twenty-five works of fiction, including The Sea, the Sea, winner of the Booker Prize, and The Black Prince, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. This collection reassesses her literary and philosophical output, focusing on her key literary works and the influence she had among contemporary philosophers" --

Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel

Author : J. Clements
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230353924
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel written by J. Clements and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature

Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy

Author : Sabina Lovibond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136819355
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy written by Sabina Lovibond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch was one of the best-known philosophers and novelists of the post-war period. In this book, Sabina Lovibond explores the tangled issue of Murdoch's stance towards gender and feminism, drawing upon the evidence of her fiction, philosophy, and other public statements. As well as analysing Murdoch's own attitudes, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is also a critical enquiry into the way we picture intellectual, and especially philosophical, activity. Appealing to the idea of a 'social imaginary' within which Murdoch's work is located, Lovibond examines the sense of incongruity or dissonance that may still affect our image of a woman philosopher, even where egalitarian views officially hold sway. The first thorough exploration of Murdoch and gender, Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy is a fresh contribution to debates in feminist philosophy and gender studies, and essential reading for anyone interested in Murdoch's literary and philosophical writing.

Time's Fool

Author : A. Clare Brandabur
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443894222
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Time's Fool written by A. Clare Brandabur and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time’s Fool: Essays in Context is a collection of essays on a broad range of topics, from Gilgamesh to James Joyce – and beyond: to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others. Time’s Fool is a memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, who walked away from a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Illinois to embark on a career of teaching in Middle Eastern universities in Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, occupied Palestine, Cyprus, Ankara, and finally Istanbul, where she taught for the last decade and a half of her life. Had Clare stayed with a career at a “Research I” university in the United States, her scholarship would have been far less rich and free-wheeling – more narrow, concentrated, and specialized – and she would not have been able to help and inspire her graduate and undergraduate students from the Near East and, especially during her last five or six years at Fatih University, from around the world. The essays are organized into five main groups, from “Gender and Family Relations” and “Ecocriticism,” to “Colonialism and Post-Colonialism,” “Colonialism and Ireland,” and “Colonialism, Palestine, Genocide”; and a final ‘catch-all’ section of “Miscellaneous Essays” that includes Gilgamesh, T.E. Lawrence, Yaşar Kemal, Graham Green, and modern theory. There are also sub-categories that transcend the six sections, such as Arab Literature, Catholicism, Women’s Studies, and Mythology – something for everyone, in short. Clare’s essays give a sense of her breadth of scholarship and her very rich play of mind, but the real monument to her life’s work is in the hearts and minds of the students from around the world whom she influenced.

Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon

Author : Nick Turner
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826434541
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Post-War British Women Novelists and the Canon written by Nick Turner and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monograph analyzing a number of modern British women writers and the way in which the the canon of post-war British writing has been formed.

Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger

Author : Rebecca Moden
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031179455
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger written by Rebecca Moden and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdoch’s novels – chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good Apprentice (1985), and two enigmatic late novels, The Green Knight (1993) and Jackson’s Dilemma (1995) – which are perceived through the prism of her discourse with Weinberger. It draws on a run of almost 400 letters from Murdoch to Weinberger, and on Murdoch’s philosophical writings, Weinberger’s private writings, the remarks of both artists in interviews, and other material relating to their views on art and art history, much of which is unpublished and has received no previous critical attention. Scrutiny of their shared values, methods and the imagistic dialogue that takes place in their art provides original perspectives on Murdoch’s creativity, and new ways of understanding her experimentation with the visual arts. This book offers a new line of enquiry into Murdoch's novels, and into the relationship between literature and the visual arts.