Understanding Iris Murdoch

Informationen zum Autor Cheryl K. Bove taught humanities in the Honors College at Ball State University. A specialist on the work of Iris Murdoch, she is author of A Character Index and Guide to the Fiction of Iris Murdoch and coauthor of Iris Murdoch: A Descriptive Primary and Annotated Secondary Bibliography and Sacred Space, Beloved City: Iris Murdoch's London. Bove also serves on the acquisitions board of the Iris Murdoch Centre at Kingston University. Klappentext A guide to the career of one of the most respected contemporary British novelists Zusammenfassung This divides Murdoch's work into two broad categories—the ironic tragedy and the bittersweet comedy—to examine the reasons why her work continues to attract such a large following. It summarizes Murdoch's work not as an effort to advance a cause, expand a philosophy, or portray a society, but to present human relationships and solve fictional problems of plot and theme.

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• Authors: Cheryl K Bove, Cheryl K. Bove
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2011
• EAN: 9781570039829
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-982-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Bri; Understanding Contemporary Bri
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies