Martin / Rowe Iris Murdoch

A Literary Life
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-28296-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This largely chronological study of Iris Murdoch's literary life begins with her fledgling publications at Badminton School and Oxford, and her Irish heritage. It moves through the novels of the next four decades and concludes with an account of the biographical, critical and media attention given to her life and work since her death in 1999.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martin, P.

Rowe, Anne

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Chronology Early Life After the War Triangles and Polygons Ireland New Directions The Love Machine Retreats and Returns The Late Novels Afterlife Select Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

PRISCILLA MARTIN teaches English Literature and Classics at the University of Oxford, UK. She has also taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, London, Colorado, California, Washington and Hawaii. She has published on Chaucer, Piers Plowman, the Gawain-poet, Tyndale, Shakespeare, Iris Murdoch and other twentieth-century novelists.

ANNE ROWE is Director of the Centre of Iris Murdoch Studies at Kingston University,UK and Lead Editor of the She has published widely on Iris Murdoch, most recently co-authoring with Cheryl Bove and co-editing with Avril Horner.