Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit

by Elizabeth Dipple

Book Overview

Originally 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367340070
• ISBN13: 9780367340070
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"