Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002.
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Education | Iris Murdoch | During this very important year of my life Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 262 qtd. in Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 263 |
Friends, Associates | Q. D. Leavis | The couple hosted tea parties for undergraduates and other guests on Friday afternoons. One of those who attended was Ludwig Wittgenstein
, who was introduced to F. R. Leavis through their mutual friend, philosopher W. E. Johnson |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Stevenson | Her epigraph comes from Wittgenstein
: All that we can describe at all could also be otherwise. qtd. in Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 282 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kathleen Raine | KR
's poetry, which focusses on archetypal forms of being, is influenced by Swedenborg
and the Neo-Platonists. She was also fascinated by the avant-garde movements of her era: Bloomsbury Humanism, Freud
ianism, Wittgenstein
's and... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Iris Murdoch | In shaping her thought, her father
's influence was primary. Later influences on her thinking and therefore also in her novels were provided by Dostoevsky
in particular, by existentialist philosophy as embodied in Sartre
... |
Literary responses | Laura Riding | She considered this book one of the two prime achievements of her writing life. qtd. in Friedmann, Elizabeth. A Mannered Grace. Persea Books, 2005. 17 |
Textual Features | Zadie Smith | Chapters in this novel are headed with terms from mystical Judaic or Kabbalistic worship. The dustjacket of the first London edition bore in gold letters the words Fame! I'm gonna live forever! (from Alan Parker |
Textual Features | Lady Ottoline Morrell | The novel is concerned with a widowed scientist considering whether scientific and religious doctrines are inherently incompatible. This narrative is a fictionalized version of Russell's struggle between mystical, spiritual beliefs characterictic of Morrell, and the... |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | This celebration of postwar modernity has as epigraph Dryden
's welcome to a new century: 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new. Conradi, Peter J. Iris Murdoch. A Life. HarperCollins, 2002. 497 |
Textual Features | Iris Murdoch | The book argued that Heidegger, along with Wittgenstein
, was the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, especially in his earlier work with its attention to the concept of the Good. It suggested that... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Iris Murdoch | Her effort to put her thoughts on art, morality, and reality into a unified and coherent form is a journey of the intellect that ranges through investigations of the powers of art, the mind, and... |
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