Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction - Rilegato

Nicol, Bran

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ISBN 10: 0333688392 ISBN 13: 9780333688397

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

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

Contenuti:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333688392
• ISBN 13: 9780333688397
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 184