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	Iris Murdoch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Murdoch was the focus of Richard Eyre's biopic, Iris, which told the story of her decline into Alzheimer's disease through the eyes of her husband, John Bayley.
		Murdoch was educated in progressive schools, firstly, at the Froebel Demonstration School, and then as a boarder at the Badminton School in Bristol in 1932.
		Murdoch was strongly influenced by Plato, Freud and Sartre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iris_Murdoch (880 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Dame Iris Murdoch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iris Murdoch's brief involvement with the political party would haunt her in later years, when she was refused permission to accept a scholarship to study in America in 1946.
		The year 1954 was one which witnessed 2 key occurrences for Iris Murdoch, the first being the publication of her first novel, "Under The Net", and the other her introduction to John Bayley, at the time a young tutor and her junior by a number of years.
		Iris Murdoch was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1976, and Dame in 1987, the same year she was made Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.
	obits.com /murdochdameiris.htm (1132 words)

	IRIS MURDOCH
		Murdoch was, for many years, an anomaly: a celebrated and also popular novelist, and at the same time a respected philosophy tutor at Oxford, who throughout her career (even after she quit teaching) continued to publish serious philosophical essays and books.
		Murdoch keeps on suggesting that "The Good" is a unitary abstraction of some kind, even while all her writerly instincts work in the direction of showing its irreducible many-sidedness and its kaleidoscopic variety; even while she also insists that what it is to be a good person is to see other particular people clearly.
		Murdoch's philosophical vision is fulfilled in her novels, which dramatize again and again the struggle to see clearly, in a world of self-delusion, the revelations and the blindings of erotic love.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /iris_murdoch.html (15578 words)

	Go(o)d in Iris Murdoch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Murdoch is convinced that each of us pursues the Good according to our understanding of it; evil, in her thinking, is little more than the natural consequence of misinformation about or a misconception of the Good.
		Murdoch is quite singular in her assumption that the structures of religion are of greater importance than the beliefs that have historically generated and then undergirded those structures.
		Murdoch neatly escapes a recurrent dilemma of Platonism, which is to explain the mode of existence of the Good and of all the Forms, by denying that they have an existence at all independent of those who believe in them.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9502/jacobs.html (3519 words)

	IRIS MURDOCH, by AN Wilson
		Iris, however, did not see this as his fl-hearted revenge, and I remember her telling me it was John, loyally deferential as ever, who had done the renouncing.
		The Iris of Iris Murdoch As I Knew Her doesn't entirely escape this waspishness, and it was Murdoch's own awareness of this characteristic of Wilson's writing that caused her to discourage him from attempting her biography after initially suggesting him for the task.
		Iris Murdoch, as AN Wilson notes, is now better known as a victim of Alzheimer’s disease than for her novels.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /120204.html (12153 words)

	Murdoch, Dame Iris. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Murdoch views human beings as “accidental” creatures, purportedly free but actually constricted by the boundaries of self, society, and the natural world.
		Among Murdoch’s 26 novels are The Flight from the Enchanter (1956), The Bell (1958), A Severed Head (1961), An Accidental Man (1972), The Sea, the Sea (1978; Booker Prize), Message to the Planet (1989), The Green Knight (1994), and Jackson’s Dilemma (1995).
		Murdoch worked on dramatizations of two of her novels, A Severed Head (1963, with J. Priestley), and The Italian Girl (1967, with James Sanders), and she wrote several plays, including Art and Eros (1980).
	www.bartleby.com /65/mu/MurdochI.html (284 words)

	Centre for Iris Murdoch Studies - Kingston University London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When Iris Murdoch died in February 1999, she was described by Melvyn Bragg and A S Byatt, amongst many others, as one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth century.
		Study of Murdoch's work is central to an understanding of the development of the twentieth-century novel, and her work is now studied on undergraduate and post-graduate courses throughout the UK and in America.
		Iris Murdoch was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University in 1994 and study of her novels is an integral element of the University's English undergraduate programme.
	fass.kingston.ac.uk /research/centres/Iris_Murdoch/index.shtml (1627 words)

	Iris Murdoch
		Wills John Hughes Murdoch, Iris' 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.
		Murdoch had an affair with Canetti; but, in 1956, she married John Bayley, a man six years her junior and a virgin at 29.
		Murdoch was not interested in children, although she apparently was in sex.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-071504-murdoch.html (982 words)

	Murdoch, Dame Iris on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		MURDOCH, DAME IRIS [Murdoch, Dame Iris] (Dame Jean Iris Murdoch), 1919-99, British novelist and philosopher, b.
		Murdoch's novels, subtle, witty, convoluted, puzzling, and often wildly comic, have elicited widely differing critical interpretations.
		Iris Murdoch is Britain's prolific first lady of fiction.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m/murdochi1.asp (465 words)

	MSN Encarta - Iris Murdoch
		Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), British writer and philosopher, born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated at the University of Oxford.
		Murdoch began a career as a successful writer of fiction with Under the Net (1954).
		Regarded as a master stylist, she presents in her fiction a cast of characters who struggle with the discovery that they are not truly free but are fettered by themselves, society, and natural forces.
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	JOYCE CAROL OATES : ON IRIS MURCOCH
		There are even amusing Murdoch characters who realize that they are doomed to happiness and to the mediocrity that seems to imply, since the circumstances of their lives prevent them from continuing the quest for the nature of truth (Henry Marshalson, Bruno's son Miles).
		Murdoch believes that the "inner" world is, in a sense, parasitic upon the "outer" world, and that love, far from being the redemptive, all-consuming force that sentimentalists consider it, is in fact the most dangerous of all delusions.
		Murdoch makes an attempt to give such characters weight, to sketch in backgrounds for them—they usually have "tragic" memories—but they remain unconvincing because they are so dangerously close to the authorial voice itself.
	www.usfca.edu /fac-staff/southerr/murdoch.html (2114 words)

	Amazon.com: Elegy for Iris: Books: John Bayley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In one of literary history's ghastlier ironies, Iris Murdoch, the author of such highly intellectual and philosophical novels as A Severed Head and Under the Net, was diagnosed in 1994 with Alzheimer's disease, which slowly destroys reasoning powers, memory, even the ability to speak coherently.
		Murdoch was already a dashing and rather mysterious figure when she and Bayley met in the Oxford of the 1950s; she was a philosophy don at a women's college who had just written a much-admired first novel; he was a bright, rather naive graduate student.
		I read Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea, (which won the 1978 Booker Prize) on Dec 4, 1983, and her Under the Net (which was no. 95 on the Modern Library panel's list of the 100 greatest novels written in English in the 20th century) and was under-enthralled with both.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312253826?v=glance (2832 words)

	Tom Phillips: Portraits: Dame Iris Murdoch
		Iris is sitting in my usual sitter's chair, half looking out of the window: sometimes, if intriguing people passed by, or dogs (a liking for which we do not share), she would lean out of position to get a better look.
		As ever such a task is in the end a partnership and Iris was always interested in its progress as well as in how the rest of the work was developing in the studio.
		I can't now remember what prompted Iris to persuade me to sing my old school song ('Still Henry Thornton's known for labours philanthropic, which loosened slavery's chains throughout the sultry tropic...) or what gave rise to her singing in her fine contralto a socialist rally chorus in the middle of another sitting.
	www.tomphillips.co.uk /portrait/imur (1264 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Murdoch, Iris
		Murdoch brought philosophical rigour, ethical commitment and a huge intellect to fiction; on being asked how long she took off between books, she is said to have replied "about half an hour".
		AS Byatt's Iris Murdoch; and relish her own essay collection, Existentialists and Mystics, a perceptive investigation into the symbiotic relationship of philosophy and literature.
		Iris Murdoch's fall could not have been more marked: perhaps the greatest novelist of her generation, she was reduced to a state of perpetual puzzlement by Alzheimer's.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-113,00.html (478 words)

	Amazon.ca: Iris Murdoch: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Things are changing now, in part because of Iris Murdoch’s writings on moral philosophy and because of her fascination with the inner struggles with good and evil of reflective people, a recurring theme of her twenty six novels.
		Murdoch, living and writing in Oxford during most of her life, managed to resist the powerful influence of Oxford philosophers for whom there was simply no place in philosophy for talk...
		Writer and philosopher Murdoch played a major role in English writing for nearly half a century: Iris Murdoch: A Life provides her first authorized biography, examining her life and work and revealing not only connections between her life and her art, but the moral and social changes she helped introduce to new generations.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393048756 (796 words)

	Iris (2001/I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Quotes: Iris Murdoch: There is only one freedom of any importance, freedom of the mind.
		This movie has an all-star cast -- Judi Dench as Iris Murdoch, Jim Broadbent as her husband, John Bayley, Kate Winslet as the young Iris Murdoch, and Hugh Bonneville as the young John Bayley.
		I am not familiar with any of her works, but I have learned that Iris Murdoch was a very fine and prolific writer.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0280778 (511 words)

	The Valve - A Literary Organ \| My Century is Better Than Yours
		Murdoch as a whole seems to adhere roughly to Enlightenment individualism, and talks about secularism though both her novels and her philosophical essays suggest a mystical bent, especially where works of art are concerned.
		In the next few sentences, Murdoch suggests that the 19th C. class struggle allowed the problem of individuality to be put off until the mid/late twentieth century.
		Murdoch doesn’t name too many authors who seem “crystalline” (which is interchangeable for her with “dry"), though she suggests they are doing in prose what the Symbolists and T.S. Eliot did in verse.
	www.thevalve.org /go/valve/article/my_century_is_better_than_yours (1322 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Kingston university buys Murdoch library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Iris Murdoch's library of more than 1,000 books, notes and original manuscripts has been acquired by Kingston university.
		Bookseller Ms Lee said that she was aware of the value of the collection to scholars of Murdoch.
		Since her death in 1999 following a descent into Alzheimer's, Murdoch's life has been documented in her husband's tender portrait of her decline, Elegy for Iris, a huge "official life" by Peter Conradi, a controversial revisionist biography by AN Wilson and a film, which starred Kate Winslet and Judi Dench.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1192583,00.html (400 words)

	Iris Murdoch - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA)
		Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the most acclaimed British writers of the twentieth century.
		Under the Net is a picaresque existentialist adventure set in London and Paris's Left Bank that displays many of the traits for which her later work is so admired: a fast-paced plot, finely wrought settings, imaginatively developed characters, and a strong philosophical concern with moral issues and ethical crises.
		Surpassing the somewhat derivative existentialist strictures of this nevertheless stunning debut, Murdoch published almost a novel per year throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s and continued at a slightly less feverish pace throughout the '80s and early '90s.
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	Amazon.com: Iris (2001): DVD: Judi Dench,Jim Broadbent,Kate Winslet,Hugh Bonneville,Penelope Wilton,Eleanor Bron,Angela ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband.
		Murdoch died in 1999 of Alzheimer's Disease, and IRIS is a poignant and sad chronicle of her descent into mental darkness.
		Iris Murdoch (portrayed in her young years by Kate Winslet) is a liberated freethinker.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000067J3R?v=glance (3431 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Iris Murdoch: A Life - The Authorized Biography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a century.
		There is a recognizable Murdoch world, and the adjective "Murdochian" has entered the language to describe situations where a small group of people interract intricately and strangely.
		Her story is as emotionally fascinating as that of Virginia Woolf, but far less well-known; hers has been an adventurous, highly eventful life, a life of phenomenal emotional and intellectual pressures, and her books portray a real world which is if anything toned down as well as mythicised.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/000653175X (456 words)

	Iris Murdoch
		Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, grew up in London, and received her university education at Oxford and Cambridge.
		Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, and John Fowles: Didactic Demons in Modern Fiction (1988) by Richard Kane
		Iris Murdoch as I Knew Her (2003) by A N Wilson
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /m/iris-murdoch (327 words)

	Iris Murdoch
		Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher, died on February 8, 1999, in Oxford, England, at the age of seventy-nine.
		Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 15, 1919.
		More explicitly on the relation between literature and philosophy is an interview with Bryan Magee in Men of Ideas (1978), in which she addresses the possible relation (none, she claimed) between her philosophical views and her fictions.
	www.aesthetics-online.org /memorials/bonzon.html (1212 words)

	Under the Net - Iris Murdoch
		Truth lies in blundering on." Murdoch's first effort here is a fine example of such blundering on -- but she perhaps remained too wary of trying harder to get close enough to "crawl under the net".
		The ideas are already here, and the talent too, but Murdoch wasn't fully able to make a story out of it yet.
		Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and was a fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/murdochi/undernet.htm (779 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		John Bayley, former Professor of English at Oxford, and Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author, have been married for more than 45 years.
		Without underplaying the realities of living with someone with Alzheimer's, he writes in a moving and dignified way, without sentimentality, of a woman rather than a condition, who is still every bit his wife, if even more his dependent.
		I didn't read many books of Iris Murdoch and it wasn't because of her, that I read John Bayley's book.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349112150 (903 words)

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