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037			_bTaylor & Francis _cGBP 33.99 _fBB
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100	1		_aElizabeth Dipple
245	1	0	_aIris Murdoch _bWork for the Spirit
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260			_aOxford _bRoutledge _c20211001
300			_a370 p
520			_bOriginally 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.
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