Titlebook: Iris Murdoch; A Literary Life Priscilla Martin,Anne Rowe Book 2010 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010 bibl

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After the War,he fifties displayed a modest or chauvinistic insularity. The powerfully influential literary critic F.R. Leavis concentrated on literature written in English. New Criticism pretended to eschew contextualization.. ., a collection of verse by a new generation of poets including Philip Larkin, Kingsle

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Ireland, herself as Anglo-Irish. Murdoch was indeed born in Dublin, but her claim that she spent her first year or two there was exaggerated. Her father gave a London address on her birth certificate and the family settled permanently in London when she was a baby. Her ancestry on both sides was Irish and b

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New Directions, Constant Themes,s in the early years of the decade. The 1960s turned out to be politically chaotic for the country and emotionally and creatively turbulent for Murdoch. She was spreading her wings, experimenting with different genres. A 100-page cycle of poems, ‘Conversations with a Prince’, was sent to Norah Small

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The Love Machine, was still finding it difficult (Peggy Ramsey read . in August 1968 and had pointed to some very old-fashioned theatrical techniques).. Working on her plays on a cold evening in June 1969, she seemed to hear a message saying ‘WAIT’ (., p. 115). Perhaps the inner voice was a cautionary one. She turne

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Retreats and Returns,ought had come with age (., p. 138). The following year she attributed the increased length of these later novels to a greater relaxation in her writing because she was no longer worried about breaking the form by blurring it (., p. 142).. Although in the 1970s Murdoch was expressing distaste for ex

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Afterlife,sh letters that the BBC evening news gave her death precedence over that of King Hussein of Jordan. In the final years of her life she was revered — almost sanctified — by an adoring public, although in academic circles her work had fallen out of favour. Now, ten years later, this situation has been

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