1. Iris Murdoch - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was a Dublinborn writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch

Iris Murdoch From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Iris Murdoch Born July 15 Dublin, Ireland Died February 8 (aged 79) Oxfordshire, England Occupation Novelist Philosopher Writing period Influences Plato Sigmund Freud Simone Weil Jean-Paul Sartre ... William Shakespeare Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE 15 July 8 February ) was a Dublin -born writer and philosopher , best known for her novels , which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her first published novel, Under the Net , was selected in 2001 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century . In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Contents Biography Novels Controversial biography Bibliography ... edit Biography Murdoch was born at 59 Blessington Street, Dublin Ireland on 15 July, 1919. Her father, Wills John Hughes Murdoch, came from a mainly Presbyterian sheep farming family from Hillhall County Down (near Belfast Northern Ireland , in the United Kingdom ), and her mother, Irene Alice Richardson, who had trained as a singer until her birth, was from a

2. Iris Murdoch - Wikipédia Translate this page Iris Murdoch est née à Dublin, Irlande, le 15 juillet 1919. Son père, Wills John Hughes Murdoch, venait d’une famille presbytérienne d’éleveurs de moutons http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch

Iris Murdoch Un article de Wikip©dia, l'encyclop©die libre. Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Pour les articles homonymes , voir Murdoch Iris Murdoch ( 15 juillet Dublin 8 f©vrier Oxford ) ©tait une ©crivaine britannique modifier Biographie Iris Murdoch est n©e   Dublin Irlande , le 15 juillet 1919. Son p¨re, Wills John Hughes Murdoch, venait d’une famille presbyt©rienne d’©leveurs de moutons du County Down (pr¨s de Belfast ), et sa m¨re, Irene Alice Richardson, qui avait eu une formation de chanteuse, ©tait d’une famille protestante de Dublin. Durant la jeunesse d’Iris, ses parents d©m©nagent   Londres o¹ son p¨re devient fonctionnaire. Iris ©tudie les classiques, l’histoire ancienne et la philosophie   Somerville College, Oxford , puis la philosophie   Newnham College, Cambridge , o¹ elle a notamment comme professeur Ludwig Wittgenstein . En 1948, elle devient enseignante   St Anne's College, Oxford. Elle ©crit son premier roman, Under The Net , en 1954, apr¨s avoir publi© plusieurs essais philosophiques et la premi¨re ©tude en anglais consacr©e   Jean-Paul Sartre . A Oxford, en 1956, elle rencontre et ©pouse John Bayley, professeur de litt©rature anglaise et ©galement romancier. Elle ©crira encore 25 autres romans, ainsi que d’autres ©tudes et pi¨ces de th©¢tre, jusqu’  1995, o¹ elle commence   subir les effets de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Elle meurt en 1999 ¢g©e de 79 ans.

3. Iris Murdoch - Wikiquote Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (191907-15 – 1999-02-08) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, famed for her series of novels that combine rich http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch

Iris Murdoch From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Dame Jean Iris Murdoch ) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher, famed for her series of novels that combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines usually involving ethical or sexual themes. Her life-story was filmed in 2001 as Iris Contents Sourced Unsourced Misattributed External links ... edit Sourced Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself. The Bell (2001), ch. 9, p. 119. (1958) We can only learn to love by loving. The Bell (2001), ch. 19, p. 219. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. "The Sublime and the Good", in the Chicago Review , Vol. 13 (1959) p. 51. Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

4. Literary Encyclopedia: Dame Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch had a long and distinguished dual career as a major twentiethcentury English novelist and an influential moral philosopher. http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3262

5. Iris Murdoch - Wikipedia, La Enciclopedia Libre Translate this page Dama Jean Iris Murdoch (Orden del Imperio Británico) (15 de julio 1919 – 8 de febrero 1999) Escritora y filósofa nacida en Irlanda, mejor conocida por sus http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch

Iris Murdoch De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Saltar a navegaci³n bºsqueda Dama Jean Iris Murdoch (Orden del Imperio Brit¡nico) ( 15 de julio 8 de febrero ) Escritora y fil³sofa nacida en Irlanda, mejor conocida por sus novelas, en las que combina una rica caracterizaci³n con animados argumentos, involucrando, por lo general, temas de ­ndole moral o sexual. Su primera novela publicada, Bajo la red, fue seleccionada en 2001 por la American Modern Library como una de las 100 mejores novelas en lengua inglesa del siglo XX. En 1987, fue nombrada Dama Comandante de la Orden del Imperio Brit¡nico. Tabla de contenidos Biograf­a Novelas Ficci³n Filosof­a ... editar Biograf­a Murdoch naci³ en Blessington Street 59, Dubl­n, Irlanda, el 15 de Julio de . Su padre, Wills John Hughes Murdoch proven­a de una familia de granjeros presbiterianos de Hillhall, Condado Down (cerca de Belfast), y su madre, Irene Alice Richardson, quien fuera entrenada para cantante desde ni±a, proven­a de Dubl­n, de una familia anglicana de clase media, de la Iglesia Anglicana de Irlanda. A temprana edad, los padres de Murdoch se mudaron a Londres, donde su padre trabaj³ en el Servicio Civil. Murdoch fue educada en escuelas progresistas: primero en Froeble Demonstration School, y luego en Badminton School de Bristol, en 1932. Comenz³ a leer cl¡sicos, historia antigua y filosof­a en el Somerville College, de Oxford, y filosof­a como postgraduada en el Newnham College de Cambridge, donde tuvo como maestro a Ludwig Wittgenstein . En 1948, devino profesora del St Anne´s College, de Oxford. Escribi³ su primera novela, Bajo la red, en 1954, habiendo previamente publicado ensayos sobre filosof­a, incluyendo el primer estudio en ingl©s sobre

6. Iris Murdoch’s Last Novel Reveals First Signs Of Alzheimer’s Disease The last novel written by author Iris Murdoch before she died reveals signs of the first stages of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in http://www.ucl.ac.uk/media/library/murdoch

UCL MEDIA RELATIONS UCL Home UCL Media Relations Iris Murdoch’s last novel reveals first signs of Alzheimer’s disease Iris Murdoch’s last novel reveals first signs of Alzheimer’s disease 1 December 2004 The last novel written by author Iris Murdoch before she died reveals signs of the first stages of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study published in the latest online issue of Brain. As part of their on-going research into the effects of Alzheimer's disease on language, scientists at University College London and Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit decided to compare three of Dame Iris Murdoch’s works, including her final novel written just before she was diagnosed with the disease. The team found that, while the structure and grammar of Murdoch’s writing remained roughly consistent throughout her career, her vocabulary had dwindled and her language simplified in her very last novel. This unique opportunity to study someone’s writing style over their lifetime could help researchers improve current diagnostic tests for Alzheimer’s. Under the Net, Murdoch’s first published work, The Sea, The Sea which was written during the prime of her creative life and her final novel, Jackson’s Dilemma, written just before Murdoch was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, were all converted to digital format and analysed using specialised software. The complete texts were also transformed into word lists showing the frequency of each word by word-type.

7. ArtandCulture Artist: Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch’s fiction has a way of exposing fears and insecurities; suspense and an impending sense of death drive the plots of many of her novels. http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1237

8. Gifford Lecture Series - Biography - Iris Murdoch Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland, of AngloEnglish parents and was educated at Badminton School and Oxford University. After several government jobs http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=131

9. Iris Murdoch - Book Lust I was introduced to Iris Murdoch’s novels in the early 1980s, and I read them, in no particular order, in a flurry of delight and awe, thoroughly convinced http://booklust.wetpaint.com/page/Iris Murdoch

A Wetpaint Wiki Sign in to Wetpaint Welcome! Wikis are websites that everyone can build together. It's easy! Iris Murdoch Share your thoughts. Under the Net The Flight from the Enchanter The Sandcastle The Bell A Severed Head An Unofficial Rose The Unicorn The Italian Girl The Red and the Green The Time of the Angels The Nice and the Good *A Fairly Accidental Man *The Black Prince *A Word Child The Sacred and Profane Love Machine Henry and Cato Nuns and Soldiers *The Good Apprentice *The Book and the Brotherhood The Message to the Planet The Green Knight [Excerpted from Book Lust] Latest page update: made by TemlynWriting Sep 21 2006, 11:32 PM EDT about this update About This Update Edited typo TemlynWriting 1 word added 1 word deleted 2 images added 2 images deleted view changes complete history Keyword tags: book crush Book Lust book wiki Iris Murdoch ... Nancy Pearl More Info: links to this page Bookmark: Del.icio.us Digg Blue Dot StumbleUpon Keyword tags Keyword tags: None Start a New Thread Threads Start a New Thread as Reply as Anonymous ( Get credit for your thread Subject: Please enter some text (at least 3 characters).

10. Murdoch.shape9.nl Short biography, information on her books, links. http://murdoch.shape9.nl/

11. Iris Murdoch Life and selected bibliography of the prolific English novelist. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/imurdoch.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) - in full Dame Jean Iris Murdoch, married name Mrs. J.O. Bailey British writer, university lecturer and prolific and highly professional novelist, Iris Murdoch dealt with everyday ethical or moral issues, sometimes in the light of myths. As a writer, she was a perfectionist who did not allow editors to change her text. Murdoch produced 26 novels in 40 years, the last written while she was suffering from Alzheimer disease. "She wanted, through her novels, to reach all possible readers, in different ways and by different means: by the excitement of her story, its pace and its comedy, through its ideas and its philosophical implications, through the numinous atmosphere of her own original and created worldthe world she must have glimpsed as she considered and planned her first steps in the art of fiction." (John Bailey in Elegy for Iris Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin - the name 'Murdoch' is essentially Scots Gaelic. Her mother, the former Irene Alice Richardson, was an Irishwoman who had trained as an opera singer. Wills John Hughes Murdoch, Iris's father, was an English civil servant who had been a cavalry officer in World War I. Following the war, he worked as a government clerk. The family moved to London, where Murdoch grew up in the western suburbs of Hammersmith and Chiswich.

12. JOYCE CAROL OATES : ON IRIS MURCOCH Joyce Carol Oates on iris murdoch. http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/southerr/murdoch.html

IM Visit Iris Murdoch on the web: Iris Murdoch JCO Sacred and Profane Iris Murdoch by Joyce Carol Oates Originally published in the New Republic, Novermber 18, 1978 Reprinted in The Profane Art Though Iris Murdoch has defined the highest art as that which reveals and honors the minute, "random" detail of the world, and reveals it together with a sense of its integrity, its unity and form, her own ambitious, disturbing, and eerily eccentric novels are stichomythic structures in which ideas, not things, and certainly not human beings, flourish. In the beginning is the Word. The Sea, The Sea The Time of the Angels and The Italian Girl, inferior works; and unresolved, troubling, provocative endings, as in A Word Child, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, Henry and Cato and The Sea, The Sea The Sea, The Sea, a retired playwright and director who has achieved great fame in England, but who sees himself, correctly, as an egotist and a rapacious magician, is charged by a former admirer with having created nothing genuine, nothing of permanent value: Charles Arrowby is a master of dazzling ephemera, nothing more, and now that his power is fading he will soon be forgotten. Like Hilary Burde of A Word Child and, to some extent, the overly prolific, death-haunted novelist Montague Small of

13. Murdoch, Iris | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books Quick introduction to the author, and several relevant articles, including obituary. http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-113,00.html

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14. Iris Murdoch Internet Resources: Welcome Welcome to this iris murdoch page. It is hard to find things about her on the Internet, so I started this page to link the few resources together. http://www.shape9.nl/murdoch/Murdoch.html

Welcome Welcome to this Iris Murdoch page. It is hard to find things about her on the Internet, so I started this page to link the few resources together. This page has already undergone quite some changes over time, and it is still far from finished. Have a look around, maybe you can help me out in some areas.. I am often mailed with questions along the lines of 'could you give me a summary of book X' or 'please supply me with more info on Y' . I cannot answer these questions: all the info I have I will put on this site. Cas Cremers 16 December 2001 Some layout changes and a new section: Books on Iris Murdoch , written by others. The list is far from complete, so feel free to send in some information. 11 December 2001 I decided to put the new info on the movie 'Iris' online! Check it out. 6 November 2001 I've been working on a few new sections for this site, including "books about Iris Murdoch", and you can expect these to go live before the end of the year. 19 October 2001 Added a new review for 'the Green knight' in the novels section and removed a dead link. (Actually, there is a lot of work that needs to be done on these pages, because of all the books about Iris Murdoch that appeared, but I'm just too busy at the moment.

15. Featured Author: Iris Murdoch Several book reviews, and an interview, from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/20/specials/murdoch.html

Featured Author: Iris Murdoch With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Iris Murdoch's Books Articles About Iris Murdoch Related Links Mary Gordon Reviews John Bayley's 'Elegy for Iris' (December 20, 1998) First Chapter: 'Elegy for Iris' St. Martin's Press John Bayley and Iris Murdoch REVIEWS OF IRIS MURDOCH'S BOOKS: The Sandcastle "She has an extraordinary gift for looking at the embroiled affairs of her contemporaries as tragic comedies." The Time of the Angels "Murdoch writes, it's difficult not to feel, as the initiate of a mystery, possessed of secret knowledge. . . . Here, mystery is genuinely embodied; the reader's imagination is addressed, responds and is satisfied." The Nice and the Good "Murdoch's best, most exciting and most successful book. . . . one suspects a growing inclination in Miss Murdoch's approach to take fictional techniques seriously. . . . [O]ne day Miss Murdoch will write a novel that is a novel all the way through." Bruno's Dream "Murdoch's best novel since 'The Bell' . . . It is still anything but easy to assess, partly, I think, because Miss Murdoch habitually overloads her fiction . . ." A Fairly Honourable Defeat "Melodramatic incidents and transparent stratagems, useful as they are as indicators of the novel's philosophical aspects, strain the reader's belief. Miss Murdoch has sacrificed novelistic virtues to emphasize the philosophical themes . . ."

16. BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Iris Murdoch Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with iris murdoch. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/murdochi1.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import url(/bbcfour/styles/bullet2.css); Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 27 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage BBC Television ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Iris Murdoch 1919 - 1999 Now Read On 27 October 1971 Radio 4 Iris Murdoch talks to Antonia Byatt about when she started writing, the well told story as the heart of the novel 2 min 50 the nature of story with reference to Treasure Island 1 min 26 the extent to which her novels are driven by philosophy 2 min 2 the theme of accident in her novel Accident 3 min 58 You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. Visit WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer Iris Murdoch Novelist and philosopher Noted for her psychological novels containing both philosophical and comic elements, Iris Murdoch was awarded the Booker Prize for The Sea, The Sea in 1978. Read more Further Links Iris Murdoch - A Remarkable Literary Talent About the BBC Help Advertise with us

17. IRIS MURDOCH ON THE GOOD, GOD AND RELIGION Among the philosophers and novelists of the last halfcentury, iris murdoch is remarkable for her preoccupation with the conception of morality or the http://www.ul.ie/~philos/vol4/murdoch.html

IRIS MURDOCH ON THE GOOD, GOD AND RELIGION Joseph Malikail 1. INTRODUCTION Among the philosophers and novelists of the last half-century, Iris Murdoch is remarkable for her preoccupation with the conception of morality or the vision of the Platonic Form of the Good; her novels depict characters in different versions and degrees of moral goodness, plausible in a contemporary setting. That preoccupation is the subject of this paper. Murdoch is a moral realist. Moral realists, whatever their differences, hold in common that there are moral truths which we are capable of recognizing and which are there for us to recognize; their existence does not depend upon our recognition of them. In a 1956 paper, "Dreams and Self- Knowledge" (ie. "Vision and Choice in Morality", Conradi 1997, 92, 95-96), she discussed the ontology of moral Goodness. How should the idea of moral Good be conceived? She stood on the side of Vision against Choice. Juxtaposition of the terms was intended to clarify her Platonic (Evans 1993, 35) perspective of post-Kantian moral philosophy, and focus a critique, positive and negative, of positions held by G.E. Moore, and of the various blends of Kantianism, utilitarianism, behaviourism and existentialism prevalent among her language-analyst contemporaries. According to Murdoch, G.E. Moore has had a major impact on ethical discourse in the century. He was one of the "Cambridge Apostles", of a generation previous to hers. The members were consistently

18. Iris Murdoch Quotes 37 quotes and quotations by iris murdoch. iris murdoch All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. iris murdoch http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/i/iris_murdoch.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Iris Murdoch Quotes Type: Author Quotes Category: Irish Author Quotes Date of Birth: July 15 Date of Death: February 8 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: Iris Murdoch Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Samuel Johnson Victor Hugo ... Henry Miller A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Iris Murdoch Anything that consoles is fake. Iris Murdoch Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Iris Murdoch Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. Iris Murdoch But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. Iris Murdoch Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

19. FIRST THINGS: A Journal Of Religion, Culture, And Public Life Yet if any contemporary writer, in the Englishspeaking world anyway, deserves this kind of attention it is iris murdoch. Until her retirement a few years http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9502/jacobs.html

UserID: Password: Register Home First Things Search ... Subscribe Search First Things Advanced Search Go(o)d in Iris Murdoch by Alan Jacobs Alan Jacobs First Things 50 (February 1995): 32-36. Recently the Divinity School at the University of Chicago sponsored a conference to investigate and celebrate the theological importance of the writings, especially the novels, of Iris Murdoch. The attitude expressed by many of the theologians involved was one of abject, almost pathetic, gratitude to Murdoch for taking religion seriously-not many noted artists do so, after all, nor, come to think of it, do all of the theologians themselves. Confronted with the spectacle of these highly trained men and women genuflecting in the direction of a novelist, however brilliant, one struggles to recall that theology was once named Queen of the Sciences. Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (my copy of which weighs in at 520 pages). But when The Green Knight , her most recent novel (and at 472 pages her briefest in more than a decade), appeared in Great Britain in 1993 it became clear that the completion of Metaphysics had scarcely exhausted her energy.

20. Iris Murdoch Resources Hundreds of links to web resources sorted by work, biographical timeline, news. http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/iris.html

[Up: Favorite authors] [Robot Wisdom home page] Iris Murdoch resources on the Web Jorn Barger (updated Jul2002) A Under the Net J Time of the Angels S The Sea, The Sea B Flight/Enchanter K Nice and the Good T Nuns and Soldiers C The Sandcastle L Bruno's Dream U Ph'sopher's Pupil D The Bell M F Hon'ble Defeat V Good Apprentice E A Severed Head N An Accidental Man W F Unofficial Rose O The Black Prince X Message to Planet G The Unicorn P Y The Green Knight H The Italian Girl Q A Word Child Z Jackson's Dilemma I R Henry and Cato New: search mailinglist: Jul 2002: Iris Murdoch's London [map] Jan 2002: Josephine Hart memoir [etext] Sept 2001: Conradi's new bio [extract] Yale Updike review ... ditto May 2001: Movie being filmed with young Iris played by Kate Winslet! [info] Bayley still frisky remarried (long) (movie to be directed by Richard Eyre?); friskiness fictionalised Posthumous short story, "Something Special" NYTimes rev Dench project still slated for Mailing-list archives: http://www.egroups.com/group/iris_murdoch/ Political scandal? http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/00/02/20/stiboobnw01001.html?999

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