[PDF] Iris Murdochs Thoughts On Marxism And Buddhism eBook

Author : Hilda D. Spear
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1350309605

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Iris Murdoch produced twenty-six novels in forty years. The last of these, Jackson's Dilemma, was published in 1995, four years before her death. Murdoch's interest in moral problems inclined her towards what could be seen as an unusual view of human character and human life, leading her to create bizarre situations and offer unsettling solutions which frequently challenge and intrigue the reader. This essential introduction to one of Britain's best-known writers guides the reader through the full range of Murdoch's fictional output, tracing basic patterns which run throughout Murdoch's work and showing how the novels help to elucidate one another. The revised, updated and expanded new edition takes into account certain details which have emerged following Murdoch's death in 1999, incorporates the latest scholarship and offers fuller treatment of a number of novels. The second edition also gives more weight to the development of the moral discourse which is predominant in Murdoch's work. From the mid-sixties onwards, Murdoch was intensely concerned with the problems of Good and Evil in a godless world. In the later novels, particularly those of the eighties and nineties, she posited the possibility of mystic personalities who influence others from a position beyond the normal parameters of our world. Hilda D. Spear examines these mystic, and mysterious, fictions in the later chapters of her study, and argues that Jackson's Dilemma should be viewed as Murdoch's 'unfinished novel'.

Author : P. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230282962

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This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.

Author : Cheryl Browning Bove
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780872498761

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Describes Murdoch as preoccupied with love, art, & the possibility & difficulty of doing good & avoiding evil.

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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The eminent philosopher and novelist delivers a comprehensive and compelling statement of the underpinnings of morality. Dame Murdoch draws on the entire history of philosophy--and particularly on Plato and Immanuel Kant--to formulate her own model of morality and demonstrate how thoroughly it is bound up with our daily lives. Murdoch has written 24 novels and numerous works of philosophy and drama.

Author : Maria Antonaccio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226021130

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A HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF THE WRITINGS OF IRIS MURDOCH.