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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 (/ 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 ...
  3. thecollector.com

    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 ...
  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. thebookerprizes.com

    Nov 9, 2023Iris Murdoch was a productive writer of 26 novels and five works of philosophy. The critic Francis Wyndham pictured her 'seated between two massive piles of manuscript, moving only to write, one pile of empty paper, the other full, her industry phenomenal'. She worked and reworked her themes over four decades, forever seeking to perfect her ...
  6. Iris Murdoch once observed: 'philosophy is often a matter of finding occasions on which to say the obvious'. What was obvious to Murdoch, and to all those who read her work, is that Good transcends everything - even God. Throughout her distinguished and prolific writing career, she explored questions of Good and Bad, myth and morality.
  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. 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.
  9. 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 ...
  10. academic.oup.com

    Dec 13, 2023To attend to Murdoch's 'intentional' dialogue between literature and theology, Fiddes examines six different perspectives that treat this event: the love of the truth, On 'God' and 'Good', the sublime and the beautiful, the sublime, the conflicted self, and attention to the other, language and writing, and finally, the void and ...

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