Saint and Artist A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch

Name: Saint and Artist A Study of the Fiction of Iris Murdoch
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ISBN: 9780007120192

ISBN-10: 0007120192

ISBN-13: 9780007120192

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Peter J. Conradi, John Bayley

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Iris Murdoch, who died in 1999, was the author of 26 novels, including A Fairly Honourable Defeat and the Booker Prize-winning The Sea, The Sea. This is a critical examination of her work by a critic who knew her for over 20 years.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.71" wide x 7.72" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Preface to the Third Edition


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Chronology



'A Kind of Moral Psychology'



'Existentialist and Mystic'



Under the Net and the Redemption of Particulars



'Against Gravity': The Early Novels and An Accidental Man



Eros in A Severed Head and Bruno's Dream



'Open and Closed'



The Sublime in The Ball and The Unicorn



Self-Sufficiency in The Time of the Angels and The Nice and the Good



'The Closest Compression of Form with the Widest Expansion of Meaning ...'



A Fairly Honourable Defeat



The Black Prince



The Sacred and Profane Love Machine and Henry and Cato



The Sea, The Sea



Nuns and Soldiers, The Philosopher's Pupil and The Good Apprentice



The Book and the Brotherhood, The Message to the Planet, The Green Knight and Jackson's Dilemma


Conclusion


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index