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Reveals the visual arts as vital inspiration for many thematic and formal aspects of Iris Murdoch's fiction. It relates the paintings that appear in the novels to her experimentation with form, her attempts at rendering consciousness and to her philosophy. Finally, a study of characters who experience spiritual revelations in front of famous paintings endorses the centrality of the sublime in.

Iris Murdoch, Philosopher Meets Novelist aims to gather some of the world’s present experts on Iris Murdoch, in an effort to promote dialogue between philosophy and literature. This is due not only to the nature of Iris Murdoch’s work itself, but also to our belief that within Humanistic Studies there is a constant need for breaking down.

This paper examines the relation between philosophy and literature through an analysis of claims made by Martha Nussbaum regarding the contribution novels can make to moral philosophy. Perhaps her most controversial assertion is that some novels are themselves works of moral philosophy. I contrast Nussbaum’s view with that of Iris Murdoch. I.

Iris Murdoch, Novelist and Philosopher, Is Dead By RICHARD NICHOLLS. Iris Murdoch, a prodigiously inventive and idiosyncratic British writer whose 26 novels offered lively plots, complex characters and intellectual speculation, died yesterday at a nursing home in Oxford, England. She was 79 and had Alzheimer's disease.

Dr Anne Rowe, Director of the Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies at Kingston University. Roma Tre University plans to publish a volume of essays that will be presented during the conference entitled: Iris Murdoch and Virtue Ethics: Philosophy and the Novel.

Iris Murdoch's People A to Z will appeal to the many readers and fans of Iris Murdoch's novels and will introduce them to a new way of framing her many characters within the contexts of their own lives and within the wider world of the rest of her oeuvre.

Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the.

Iris Murdoch was a notable philosopher before she was a notable novelist and her work was brave, brilliant, and independent. She made her name first for her challenges to Gilbert Ryle and behaviourism, and later for her book on Sartre (1953), but she had the greatest impact with her work in moral philosophy--and especially her book The Sovereignty of Good (1970).

Murdoch's novels and philosophy are taught on the undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses within English Literature; Kingston University Press publishes the Iris Murdoch Review and is also the home of the Iris Murdoch Society, which has a world-wide membership.

Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century. Very prolific, she wrote twenty-six novels, four books of philosophy, five plays, a volume of poetry, a libretto, and numerous essays before developing Alzheimer's disease in the mid-1990s.

Profound yet accessible essays on philosophy and art by one of our greatest novelists and thinkers. Best-known for her novels and longer philosophical works, Iris Murdoch is also a brilliant essayist, and has produced classic pieces on a wide range of philosophical and literary subjects.

One of the most prolific writers of the second half of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch wrote well-crafted fiction containing rich characters and complex plots woven together with elements from philosophy and psychology. In addition to more than two dozen novels, her body of work includes several.