Iris Murdoch / Richard Todd.
Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went on to write many more). But the course of her fiction-writing...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Routledge library editions. Modern fiction ;
v. 25. |
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| Summary: | Originally published in 1984, Iris Murdoch, widely regarded as one of the major British novelists of her generation at the time, was undoubtedly one of the most popular and prolific, having published twenty-one novels since 1954 (she went on to write many more). But the course of her fiction-writing career was regarded with unease by some of her readers in that it seemed marked by an increasing conservatism of approach which could not have been foreseen in her earliest published fiction. She was acknowledged as one of Britain's leading moral philosophers and although this study is careful to respect the distinctive integrity of her fiction-writing and her philosophy, it none the less assumes her active presence in contemporary debate as one of the most powerful and original theorists of fiction writing at the time. In this study, Richard Todd systematically, but discriminatingly, surveys all her fiction to date, and attempts to show how her fundamental theme, the interplay between the roles of artist and saint, is developed and expressed in her fiction. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (iv, 110 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780429323560 0429323565 9781000639155 1000639150 9781000627756 1000627756 9781000633450 1000633454 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Vendor-supplied metadata. |