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Author : Peter J. Conradi
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Saint and the Artist written by Peter J. Conradi and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Macmillan Press in 1986 as Iris Murdoch: the saint and the artist.
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ISBN 13 : 9789997021076
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Saint and the Artist written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Conradi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393048759
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by Peter J. Conradi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conradi assesses the intellectual and cultural legacy of the celebrated philosopher and writer. In addition to details of her personal life, he details her philosophical works and 26 novels. 50 photos.
Author : Sabina Lovibond
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136819363
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy written by Sabina Lovibond and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 161 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.
Author : Peter J. Conradi
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333466759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch: The Saint and the Artist written by Peter J. Conradi and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-12-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised study of Iris Murdoch's fiction in which the author argues that her spirited earlier work gave way to a deeper more comic style in the 1970s and 80s. There is an additional chapter on her most recent fiction and an attempt to relate her work to that of Dostoevsky.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118092X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Living on Paper written by Iris Murdoch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, novelist Iris Murdoch's life in her own words, from girlhood to her last years Iris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice—her life in her own words. Living on Paper—the first major collection of Murdoch's most compelling and interesting personal letters—gives, for the first time, a rounded self-portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers. With more than 760 letters, fewer than forty of which have been published before, the book provides a unique chronicle of Murdoch's life from her days as a schoolgirl to her last years. The result is the most important book about Murdoch in more than a decade. The letters show a great mind at work—struggling with philosophical problems, trying to bring a difficult novel together, exploring spirituality, and responding pointedly to world events. They also reveal her personal life, the subject of much speculation, in all its complexity, especially in letters to lovers or close friends, such as the writers Brigid Brophy, Elias Canetti, and Raymond Queneau, philosophers Michael Oakeshott and Philippa Foot, and mathematician Georg Kreisel. We witness Murdoch's emotional hunger, her tendency to live on the edge of what was socially acceptable, and her irreverence and sharp sense of humor. We also learn how her private life fed into the plots and characters of her novels, despite her claims that they were not drawn from reality. Direct and intimate, these letters bring us closer than ever before to Iris Murdoch as a person, making for an extraordinary reading experience.
Author : Richard Todd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000639150
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by Richard Todd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went on to write many more). But the course of her fiction-writing career was regarded with unease by some of her readers in that it seemed marked by an increasing conservatism of approach which could not have been foreseen in her earliest published fiction. She was acknowledged as one of Britain’s leading moral philosophers and although this study is careful to respect the distinctive integrity of her fiction-writing and her philosophy, it none the less assumes her active presence in contemporary debate as one of the most powerful and original theorists of fiction writing at the time. In this study, Richard Todd systematically, but discriminatingly, surveys all her fiction to date, and attempts to show how her fundamental theme, the interplay between the roles of artist and saint, is developed and expressed in her fiction.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101494247
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Unicorn written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-01-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant mythical drama about well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come as a “companion” to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her employer is a prisoner, not only of her obsessions, but of an unforgiving husband. Hannah, the Unicorn, seemingly an image of persecuted virtue, fascinates those who surround her, some of whom plan to rescue her from her dream of redemptive suffering. But is she an innocent victim, a guilty woman, a mad woman, or a witch? Is her spiritual life really some evil enchantment? If she is forcibly liberated will she die? The ordinary, sensible people survive, and are never sure whether they have understood.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101495650
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Sea, The Sea written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Miles Leeson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441127631
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist written by Miles Leeson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch's engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was, most importantly, a philosophical novelist. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it becomes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning. Leeson proceeds thematically through the philosophical phases of Murdoch's life and develops a clear argument that Murdoch reacts against the philosophies of Sartre, Plato, Nietzsche and Heidegger not only in her philosophical writings but also in her fiction. Indeed, it is in her fiction that her philosophical argument is most persuasive and accessible. This timely study provides new information regarding Murdoch's engagement with Martin Heidegger and also provides a detailed critique of critics who have overlooked Murdoch's engagement with philosophy within her fiction.
Author : Kum Kum Bajaj
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126900244
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Critical Study of Iris Murdoch’s Fiction written by Kum Kum Bajaj and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fictional Scene In England, Immediately After The Second World War, Makes An Interesting Reading. Many Critical Studies Have, In Great Depth, Investigated The Historical Processes To Highlight The Various Directions The Novelists Moved In Then. At The Same Time, There Was A Concurrent And A Deliberate Attempt On The Part Of These Novelists To Discard The Heritage Of 'Modernism.' Iris Murdoch, Who Is One Of The Most Prominent Novelists Of This Period, Also Shared The Distrust Of Her Contemporaries For The So-Called Literary Radicalism. However, She Remains Distinct As A Writer Among Her Contemporaries, In Her Awareness Of The Problems Of The Novel And Language, In Her Adherence, Both To The Idealism About Human Potentiality And Perfectibility That Liberal Humanism Had Contained. But She Is Also Conscious Of The Limited Individual Capacity To Reach That Ideal. Her Creative Career Is Marked By Her Desire To Bring Back To The Novel, Some Of Its Earlier Comprehensive Vision Of Life, Society And Human Character.The Present Book Attempts To Reveal Those Important Areas Of Murdoch'S Thought Which Set Her Apart From Other Novelists Writing At That Time. Her Search For Literary Metaphors Which Aim At Restoring To Novel Some Of Its Lost Moorings Is A Significant, Almost Iconoclastic Effort. Taking Help From Her Non-Fictional Treatises, An Attempt Has Been Made In This Book To Highlight The Platonic Burden Of Her Literary And Aesthetic Creed.
Author : Peter J. Conradi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324013
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Iris written by Peter J. Conradi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed biography, Conradi assesses the intellectual and cultural legacy of a remarkable woman "at the center of our culture." (A.S. of photos.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141186177
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (861 download)
Download or read book A Fairly Honourable Defeat written by Iris Murdoch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of love and its excesses, missteps, and modest triumphs, from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, The Sea In a dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453200975
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Flight from the Enchanter written by Iris Murdoch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charismatic businessman casts a dark spell over others in this psychologically suspenseful novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Black Prince. Mischa Fox’s name is known throughout London, though he himself is rarely seen. Enigmatic and desired, vicious yet sympathetic, he is a model of success, wealth, and charisma. When Fox turns his entrepreneurial gaze on a small feminist magazine known as the Artemis, his intoxicating influence quickly begins to affect the lives of those involved with the paper: the fragile editor, Hunter; generous Rosa, who splits her time and affections between her brother and two other men; innocent Annette, whose journey from school to the real world ends up being more fraught than she could have foreseen; and their circle of friends and acquaintances, all of whom find themselves both drawn to and repulsed by Fox. Told with dark humor, keen wit, and intense insight into the seductive nature of power, The Flight from the Enchanter is an intricate and dazzling work of fiction from the author of The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net, “one of the most significant novelists of her generation” (The Guardian).
Author : A. Rowe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625177
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by A. Rowe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theoretical positions, suggesting negotiations between them.
Author : Lyra Ekström Lindbäck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350332925
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel written by Lyra Ekström Lindbäck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyra Ekström Lindbäck revisits the crucial distinction between literature and philosophy in Iris Murdoch's work to make a convincing case for understanding the particularity of literature and her insistence on the separation between the two. Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel makes a break with existing scholarship on Murdoch's philosophy and literature that ultimately re-states the philosophical value of literature, alongside literary aspects of philosophy. This book differs by deepening Murdoch's insistence on the differences between the disciplines, providing a consistent and polemical argument for the distinction between literature and philosophy more generally. Engaging thinkers such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Sartre, Weil, and Cavell, Iris Murdoch and the Ancient Quarrel delves into the aesthetic characteristics that distinguish philosophy and literature. Through a discussion of the illusion of sense, the role of conceptual thinking in literature, the clash between epistemology and fiction, the artifice of tragedy, and the ambiguous morality of artistic inspiration and experience, this study reveals literature as essentially other to philosophy.
Author : Anne Rowe
Publisher : Writers and their Work
ISBN 13 : 1789620163
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book Iris Murdoch written by Anne Rowe and published by Writers and their Work. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch was both a popular and intellectually serious novelist, whose writing life spanned the latter half of the twentieth century. A proudly Anglo-Irish writer who produced twenty-six best-selling novels, she was also a respected philosopher, a theological thinker and an outspoken public intellectual. This thematically based study outlines the overarching themes that characterise her fiction decade by decade, explores her unique role as a British philosopher-novelist, explains the paradoxical nature of her outspoken atheism and highlights the neglected aesthetic aspect of her fiction, which innovatively extended the boundaries of realist fiction. While Iris Murdoch is acknowledged here as a writer who vividly evokes the zeitgeist of the late twentieth century, she is also presented as a figure whose unconventional life and complex presentation of gender and psychology has immense resonance for twenty-first-century readers.
