01623 a2200325 4500 0367340070 20250317100404.0 250312042021GB eng 9780367340070 Taylor & Francis GBP 33.99 BB 01 eng DSK thema DSA thema DSBH thema 1DDU bisac DSK bic DSA bic DSBH bic 1DBK bisac LIT024050 bisac LIT000000 bisac 823.914 bisac Elizabeth Dipple Iris Murdoch Work for the Spirit 1 Oxford Routledge 20211001 370 p Originally published in 1982, this brilliant study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including Nuns and Soldiers , published in 1980. The Fire and the Sun , her book on Plato, is also considered in depth. It is not a critical biography, but rather shows how massive Murdoch’s literary career was at the time and what her contribution has been to aesthetics, literary criticism, the realistic novel, and to the possibilities of ethical and religious action in a horror-filled and secular age. Above all, the book is interested in forwarding Murdoch’s cause among her readers. It is not aimed simply at those who have read and studied all of her novels, the text will appeal to the readers of only a few of them, as well as literary scholars and students of contemporary fiction and modern culture. 1595 1595