Murdoch, Iris
Philosopher and novelist (Jean) Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 15 and educated at St. Anne's College, Oxford, where she also taught from 1948 ...
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Murdoch, Iris(1919–1999)
Iris Murdoch is best known to the world as a novelist—she wrote twenty-six—but she was a tutor in philosophy at Oxford University from 1948 until 1963 and...
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The works of the novelist and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) portray characters whose warped and often dreamlike perceptions of reality create suffering among those whose lives they attempt...
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Biography EssayOne of the dominant figures of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch continues to divide the critics; for example, one of the professors of English at Cambridge University, Frank Ker...
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One of the dominant figures of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch continues to divide the critics; for example, one of the professors of English at Cambridge University, Frank Kermode, thinks hi...
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One of the prominent writers of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch has published twenty-six novels, five philosophical books, five plays, a book of poetry, and most recently two edited volumes o...
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Iris Murdoch is far more well known as a novelist, philosopher, and literary critic than as a playwright; her reputation and significance in twentieth-century literature rests largely on her twenty-si...
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Iris Murdoch's achievements in philosophy have often been overshadowed by her reputation as a novelist and dramatist. In fact, however, Murdoch's philosophical and literary work are closely interrelat...
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