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    Iris Murdoch

    Irish-born British writer and philosopher (1919–1999)

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Her other books include The Bell, A Severed Head, An Unofficial Rose, The Red and the Green, The Nice and the Good, The Black Prince, Henry and Cato, The Philosopher's Pupil, The Good Apprentice, The Book and the Brotherhood, The Message to the Planet, and The Green Knight. As a philosopher, Murdoch's best-known work is The Sovereignty of Good. Wikipedia

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    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈmɜːrdɒk / MUR-dok; 15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of ...
  4. prindleinstitute.org

    The moral dimension of literature is tied, rather, to Murdoch's sharp critique of the commonly accepted view of the goals and methods of moral philosophy of her own day - tied, as they had become, to those of science - an orthodoxy which retains significant influence in contemporary moral philosophy.
  5. encyclopedia.com

    Iris MurdochBORN: 1919, Dublin, IrelandDIED: 1999, Oxford, EnglandNATIONALITY: IrishGENRE: Novels, essays, poems, playsMAJOR WORKS:Under the Net (1954)The Sandcastle (1957)A Severed Head (1961)The Black Prince (1973)The Sea, the Sea (1978) Source for information on Murdoch, Iris: Gale Contextual Encyclopedia of World Literature dictionary.
  6. philpapers.org

    Here, drawing on a novelist's insight into art, literature and abnormal psychology, Iris Murdoch conducts an ongoing debate with major writers, (...) thinkers and theologians—from Augustine to Wittgenstein, Shakespeare to Sartre, Plato to Derrida—to provide fresh and compelling answers to these crucial questions.
  7. literaturecambridge.co.uk

    Iris Murdoch is an intensely visual writer who, when searching for inspiration, would regularly visit art galleries across the world. From Frans Hal's Laughing Cavalier in her first novel Under the Net through to Rembrandt's The Polish Rider in her penultimate novel The Green Knight, art and artists populate her fiction.
  8. rsliterature.org

    From the publication of Under the Net in 1954 until she was overtaken by Alzheimer's in the mid 1990s, the philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch wrote prolifically, establishing herself as one of the great British fiction writers of the twentieth century. Her novels, which include The Bell, The Black Prince (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and The Sea, The Sea (winner of the ...
  9. academic.oup.com

    Dec 13, 2023Besides her fame as a Booker Prize winner and moral philosopher, Iris Murdoch was also an author who had been fascinated with religion all her life. The intricacy of her literary writings, philosophical thoughts, and religious stance has been explored by Murdochian scholars for decades. A recent contribution to the topic is Iris Murdoch and The Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology, where ...
  10. Iris's professional career began as an academic philosopher at Oxford University for fifteen years and evolved throughout her life as a prolific author. Murdoch was a member of the Irish Academy of Letters and the first Irish writer to receive the Booker Prize, for ' The Sea, The Sea' ' in 1978.

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