About this book
Introduction
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.
Keywords
fiction Modernism novel postmodernism realism
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374751
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-40099-7
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-37475-1
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