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Iris Murdoch

Biography EssayOne 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 Ker... Read more

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 hi... Read more

Iris Murdoch is far more well known as a novelist, philosopher, and literary critic than as a playwright; her reputation and significance in twentieth-century literature rests largely on her twenty-si... Read more