Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction

Nicol, B.

Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction considers one of the major British novelists of the post-war years in a new light, arguing that Murdoch's compulsive plots and characters are strongly motivated by the question of the past. Drawing on many of her key works, and providing the first analysis of her 'first-person retrospective' novels as a separate group within the larger body of her fiction, the book also considers Murdoch's relation to key currents within twentieth-century thought, like modernism. postmodernism, and psychoanalysis.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-10-01

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780312217266

DOI: 10.1057/9780230374751

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 166