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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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    Dec 2, 2023A plaque commemorating Iris Murdoch, photo by David Kernan, 2020, via Wikimedia Commons. Under the Net was Murdoch's first novel. It concerns a writer's fruitless attempts to, at various points, secure a stable living, make something of himself as a writer, rekindle a friendship stupidly tossed away, rekindle a romance stupidly tossed away ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / 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 ...
  4. prindleinstitute.org

    "Literature" wrote Iris Murdoch, "is an education in how to picture and understand human situations." This year marks 100 years since her birth; presenting an opportunity to reflect upon her unique philosophical perspective and the things it can still teach us.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. openlibrary.org

    The visual arts and the novels of Iris Murdoch by Anne Rowe, 2002, E. Mellen Press edition, ... Studies in British literature ; Classifications Dewey Decimal Class 823/.914 Library of Congress PR6063.U7 Z846 2002 ... Authors; Subjects; Collections; Advanced Search; Return to Top; Develop. Developer Center;
  8. Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne's College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband ...
  9. 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 ...
  10. edwinmellen.com

    Reveals the visual arts as vital inspiration for many thematic and formal aspects of Iris Murdoch's fiction. It relates the paintings that appear in the novels to her experimentation with form, her attempts at rendering consciousness and to her philosophy. Finally, a study of characters who experience spiritual revelations in front of famous paintings endorses the centrality of the sublime in ...

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