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Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction

By Bran J. Nicol (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2004
ISBN
978-1-4039-1665-5, 978-0-230-28858-4
DOI
10.1057/9780230288584
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1652644 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
XVIII, 201\220
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
British and Irish Literature; Twentieth-Century Li

Description

Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction traces the preoccupation in Murdoch's fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, haunting us and eluding our attempts to grasp it. This argument was given an extra resonance by the death of Murdoch after Alzheimer's disease in 1999, when the book was first published - a curious blurring of life and work typical of the posthumous reassessment of Murdoch. This new edition includes detailed readings of novels not discussed in the original ( The Bell, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine , and The Philosopher's Pupil ) and includes a new preface, an updated bibliography and three new chapters covering Murdoch's most important and popular novels, considering in more depth her relationship with the dominant literary and intellectual currents of her time.

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