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 Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ( 1919-07-15 – 1999-02-08 ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, famed for her series of novels that combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her life-story was... 
 
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Iris Murdoch | | Birth Date: |
July 15, 1919 | | Death Date: |
February 8, 1999 | | Place of Birth: |
Dublin, Ireland | | Place of Death: |
Oxford, England | | Nationality: |
Irish | | Gender: |
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novelist |
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 Biography of Iris Murdoch
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The works of the novelist and philosopher Jean Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) portray characters whose warped and often dreamlike perceptions of reality create suffering among those whose lives they attempt to dominate. Jean Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin,... summary from source:
 Biography of (Jean) Iris Murdoch
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 One of the prominent writers of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch has published twenty-six novels, five philosophical books, five plays, a book of poetry, and most recently two edited volumes of previously uncollected work--another book of... summary from source:
Biography of Iris Murdoch
11,311 words, approx. 38 pages
One of the dominant figures of postwar British literature, Iris Murdoch continues to divide the critics; for example, one of the professors of English at Cambridge University, Frank Kermode, thinks highly of her work, while another, Christopher Ricks,...
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 Murdoch, Iris (1919–1999) Summary
1,206 words, approx. 4 pagesMurdoch, Iris(1919–1999) Iris Murdoch is best known to the world as a novelist—she wrote twenty-six—but she was a tutor in philosophy at Oxford University from 1948 until 1963 and wrote several influential essays on moral... summary from source:
 Murdoch, Iris Summary
788 words, approx. 3 pagesPhilosopher and novelist (Jean) Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) was born in Dublin, Ireland on July 15 and educated at St. Anne's College, Oxford, where she also taught from 1948 to 1963. She won the 1978 Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, The... summary from source:
 Iris Murdoch Information
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Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a Dublin-born writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her first...
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 Academe Iris Murdoch: A Life
07/01/2002: 339 words, approx. 1 pages Iris Murdoch: A Life Peter J. Conradi. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2001 Suffering from Alzheimer's disease, Iris Murdoch died in England in 1999. Thanks to the memoir of her widower, John Bayley, and to the film, Iris, adapted from it, these... summary from source:
The Christian Century Iris Murdoch: A Life.
03/27/2002: 974 words, approx. 3 pages Iris Murdoch: A Life. By Peter J. Conradi. Norton, 706 pp., $35.00. WHEN IRIS MURDOCH died in 1999, Harold Bloom, custodian of the literary canon, proclaimed that there were no serious writers left in Britain. John Updike calls her the preeminent English novelist... summary from source:
 greatreporter.com UKTV Profiles: SamanthaMorton
10/3/2007: 387 words, approx. 1 pagesBackground InfoBorn in Nottingham on May 13 1977, Samantha Morton was one of nine siblings. Her family collapsed when her father married the babysitter, and Samantha was raised by several different sets of foster parents over the years. Despite this turbulence, she had a firm... summary from source:
greatreporter.com Beyond Den: A LeslieGrantham Quiz
10/8/2007: 354 words, approx. 1 pagesQuestion 1 of 10:His telly reputation is that of a no-nonsense tough bloke, but the real-life Leslie is a connoisseur of what?a) Art (0)b) Wine (1)c) Antiques (0)d) Single-malt whisky (0)Question 2 of 10:Which of the following shows did a pre-Den Leslie have a role...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Steven Cohan
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Of her twenty novels, Iris Murdoch has written six in the first person, each one using a male narrator…. [One] cannot help wondering if her continual use of a male narrator amounts to another woman writer's surrendering her pen to the authority of the male novelist. As far as Murdoch herself is concerned this would seem to be the case. While she has declared that she does not find "much difference between men and women," she also claims a male viewpoint for much the same reason t... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Linda Kuehl
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Form, Iris Murdoch warns, is the artist's consolation and his temptation: he is tempted to sacrifice the eccentric, contingent individual while he consoles himself with the secure boundaries of structure. As she sees it, this constitutes a crisis since the contemporary novelist tends to produce fiction in the shape of tiny, self-contained, crystal-like objects. Diagnosing the tyranny of form as an ill that must be cured, she postulates a return to the novel of character as it is manifested in the wor... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Zohreh T. Sullivan
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Iris Murdoch's waifs, orphans, refugees, demons, and saints, all share a common isolation, a loss of community, and the absence of close relationship to "a rich and complicated" group from which as moral beings they should have much to learn. As a philosopher, Murdoch connects this loss of community to the inadequacies of existentialist and empirical thought that rely on self-centered standards of individual consciousness and sincerity, rather than on other-centered values of virtue, lo...
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