Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction
Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated by the question of the past. Drawing on many of her key works, and providing the first analysis of her 'first-person retrospective' novels as a separate group within the larger body of her fiction, the book also considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within twentieth-century thought, like modernism. postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
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Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction
Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated by the question of the past. Drawing on many of her key works, and providing the first analysis of her 'first-person retrospective' novels as a separate group within the larger body of her fiction, the book also considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within twentieth-century thought, like modernism. postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.
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Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction

Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction

by B. Nicol
Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction

Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction

by B. Nicol

Paperback(1st ed. 1999)

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Overview

Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated by the question of the past. Drawing on many of her key works, and providing the first analysis of her 'first-person retrospective' novels as a separate group within the larger body of her fiction, the book also considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within twentieth-century thought, like modernism. postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349400997
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/01/1999
Series: Retrospective Fiction
Edition description: 1st ed. 1999
Pages: 166
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

BRAN NICOL is Lecturer in English at University College, Chichester.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Revisiting the Sublime and the Beautiful: Iris Murdoch's Realism Iris Murdoch and the Insistence of the Past Author and Hero: Murdoch's First -Person Retrospective Novels Reading Past Truth: Under the Net and The Black Prince The Writing Cure: A Severed Head and A Word Child The Ambivalence of Coming Home: The Italian Girl and The Sea, the Sea Notes Bibliography Index
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