Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction - Hardcover

Bran Nicol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333688392 ISBN 13: 9780333688397

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

BRAN NICOL is Lecturer in English at University College, Chichester.

Review:

'...lucid, insightful and well-documented.' - David Herman, Modern Fiction Studies

'...[Nicol] offers a fresh and valuable perspective on many of [Murdoch's 'retrospective fictions'] distinctive features...an interesting and lucid book about Murdoch's narrators, a subject that has not had proper attention...' - George Soule, The Iris Murdoch Newsletter

'Nicol's is an important voice in Murdoch criticism, at first glance maverick, but essentially original and challenging, and it is very good to have his study with us, brought up-to-date.' - Peter J. Conradi, author of the acclaimed official biography, Iris Murdoch: A Life

Reviews for the first edition:

'...lucid, insightful and well-documented' - David Herman, Modern Fiction Studies

'...[Nicol] offers a fresh and valuable perspective on many of [Murdoch's 'retrospective fictions'] distinctive features...an interesting and lucid book about Murdoch's narrators, a subject that has not had proper attention...' - George Soule, The Iris Murdoch Newsletter

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0333688392
• ISBN 13: 9780333688397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 184