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    Iris Murdoch. BORN: 1919, Dublin, Ireland DIED: 1999, Oxford, England NATIONALITY: Irish GENRE: Novels, essays, poems, plays MAJOR WORKS: Under the Net (1954) The Sandcastle (1957) A Severed Head (1961) The Black Prince (1973) The Sea, the Sea (1978). Overview. One of the most prolific writers of the second half of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch wrote well-crafted fiction containing rich ...
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    Murdoch, Iris 1919-1999(Jean Iris Murdoch) PERSONAL: Born July 15, 1919, in Dublin, Ireland; died February 8, 1999; daughter of Wills John Hughes (a British civil servant) and Irene Alice (Richardson) Murdoch; married John Oliver Bayley (a professor, novelist, and critic), 1956. Education: Somerville College, Oxford, B.A. (first-class honors), 1942; Newnham College, Cambridge, Sarah Smithson ...
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    Murdoch's prodigious output as a philosopher and as the author of 25 novels and several plays was directed toward the elaboration of a moral vocabulary for a post-theistic age. While not a Christian believer, Murdoch embraced a religious picture of human beings as fallen, as, in some sense, sinful, and in need of transcendence.
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    Murdoch, (Jean) Iris (1919-99) British novelist and moral philosopher, b.Ireland.Murdoch created her own genre, the philosophical love story. Her early novels, culminating in The Bell (1958), are short and concise. Her later novels, such as The Black Prince (1973), the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, the Sea (1978), The Good Apprentice (1985), and The Book and the Brotherhood (1987), are ...
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    books as an aberration, or a retreat into English bourgeois complacencies." Criticism Joyce Hart. Hart has degrees in English literature and creative writing and writes primarily on literary themes. In this essay, Hart explores the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of truth on Murdoch's first novel.. Although she was never a student of the turn-of-the-century Austrian Ludwig ...
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    The Sea, The Seaby Iris MurdochTHE LITERARY WORK A novel set on the northern English coast and in London circa the 1970s; published in 1978.SYNOPSIS A famous theatrical director retires to a remote house on the English coast where he writes his memoirs and is confronted by his personal demons.Events in History at the Time of the NovelThe Novel in FocusFor More Information Source for ...
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    The emergence of women authors as full-fledged members of literary communities continued in the twentieth century. The middle of that century saw the emergence of writers such as the satirical novelist Muriel Spark (1918-2006) and the Irish novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch (1919-1999). In France women authors became important ...
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    Modern Irish and Anglo-Irish Literature and the Arts Since 1800The nineteenth century opened with the members of the Irish parliament voting themselves out of existence by their approval of the Act of Union. Just two years before, the 1798 Rebellion ended with the bitter defeat of the insurgents and great bloodshed. The mood of the country and its distressed state did not seem conducive to the ...
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    Byatt, A.S. (Antonia Susan) (1936- ) English novelist and critic, sister of Margaret Drabble.Byatt was primarily an academic literary scholar until the publication of her third novel, The Virgin in the Garden (1978). Possession, a literary mystery story and romance spanning two centuries, won the 1990 Booker Prize.She has written studies of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Iris Murdoch.
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    Publications: Four Spiritual Crises in Mid-Century American Fiction, 1964; Saul Bellow, 1967; Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn, 1969; John Updike, 1973, 1984; Story, Sign and Self: Phenomenology and Structuralism as Literary Critical Methods, 1978; (ed. with G. Meeter) Faith and Fiction: The Modern Story, 1979; (ed.) Derrida and Biblical Studies ...

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