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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, 2023Iris Murdoch was one of the most popular British novelists of the 20th century. She was also a philosopher, having studied at Somerville College and St Hilda's College, Oxford. She was part of a generation of female philosophers at Oxford—including Elizabeth Anscombe , Phillipa Foot, and Mary Midgley—who had studied as undergraduates ...
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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 ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. literariness.org

    Home › Literature › Analysis of Iris Murdoch's Novels. Analysis of Iris Murdoch's Novels By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 11, 2019 • ( 0) A knowledge of Iris Murdoch's (15 July 1919 - 8 February 1999) philosophical and critical essays is invaluable for the reader wishing to understand her fiction. Her moral philosophy, which entails ...
  6. 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. She published over 25 novels, but also made a significant contribution to ...
  7. fivebooks.com

    Miles Leeson is the Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester, The Lead Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review, the author of Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2010) and the editor of Incest in Contemporary Literature (Manchester UP, 2018).
  8. bibliolifestyle.com

    Jul 13, 2023These seven must-read Iris Murdoch books explore philosophical and moral themes and you'll see why she is one of the most influential 20th-century authors! ... To this day, Iris Murdoch remains an iconic figure in literature whose works continue to be read around the world. So, if you're looking to start reading Iris Murdoch's work but don ...
  9. britannica.com

    Feb 4, 2025Iris Murdoch (born July 15, 1919, Dublin, Ireland—died February 8, 1999, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was a British novelist and philosopher noted for her psychological novels that contain philosophical and comic elements.. After an early childhood spent in London, Murdoch went to Badminton School, Bristol, and from 1938 to 1942 studied at Somerville College, Oxford.
  10. themarginalian.org

    Iris Murdoch (July 15, 1919-February 8, 1999) ... Two decades after the Soviet communist government forced Boris Pasternak to relinquish his Nobel Prize in Literature, Murdoch writes: Tyrants always fear art because tyrants want to mystify while art tends to clarify. The good artist is a vehicle of truth, he formulates ideas which would ...
  11. plato.stanford.edu

    Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was a prominent British philosopher of the second half of the 20 th century, best known for her moral philosophy. Unusual for her times, she combined her grounding in Wittgensteinian and linguistic/analytic philosophy with a strong influence of 19th and 20 th century Continental philosophy, Christian religion and thought, and Hindu and Buddhist philosophy.

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