Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit: Work for the Spirit Contributor(s): Dipple, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367339919 ISBN-13: 9780367339913 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction |
Physical Information: 366 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Originally published in 1982, this brilliant study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including Nuns and Soldiers, published in 1980. The Fire and the Sun, her book on Plato, is also considered in depth. It is not a critical biography, but rather shows how massive Murdoch's literary career was at the time and what her contribution has been to aesthetics, literary criticism, the realistic novel, and to the possibilities of ethical and religious action in a horror-filled and secular age. Above all, the book is interested in forwarding Murdoch's cause among her readers. It is not aimed simply at those who have read and studied all of her novels, the text will appeal to the readers of only a few of them, as well as literary scholars and students of contemporary fiction and modern culture. |