Iris Murdoch: The Saint and the Artist (Studies in 20th Century Literature) - Hardcover
In this revised study of Iris Murdoch's fiction, the author argues that her spirited earlier work gave way to a deeper more comic style in the 1970s and 80s. He regards her novels as being serious entertainment and as important fictions in the Anglo-Russian tradition, not as disguised philosophy. For this second edition, Dr Conradi has added a chapter on her most recent fiction "The Good Apprentice" and "The Book and the Brotherhood" and relates her work to that of Dostoevsky. The author has published articles on John Fowles and Dostoevsky.
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A full and revealing biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.
About the Author:
From 1997 Peter Conradi was Professor Emeritus, Kingston University, and Honorary Research Fellow at UCL; from 1999 he has been Visiting Research Fellow at Magdalen, Oxford. His critical study, IRIS MURDOCH: THE SAINT AND THE ARTIST (Macmillan, 1986), was described by the NYTBR as ‘Brilliant’ and will be reissued by HarperCollins.
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- PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0333472756
- ISBN 13 9780333472750
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages314
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