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Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide

Iris Murdoch: The Essential Guide

Jonathan Noakes

Iris Murdoch's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Under The Net

Under The Net

Iris Murdoch

Jake is captivated by a majestic philosopher, Hugo Belfounder, whose profound and inconclusive reflections give the book its title - under the net of language.
Privileged Moments: Encounters with Writers

Privileged Moments: Encounters with Writers

Jeffrey Meyers

Prose portraits of Allen Ginsberg, James Dickey, Ed Dorn, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Naipaul, Francis King, and J. F. Powers
Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews

Remembering Iris Murdoch: Letters and Interviews

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Thanks for sending the interesting piece by Amin Malak!2 He has ingeniously put together those 2 old papers to credit me with a theory of fiction! In fact (of course) I have none—except that I think people shd write well! Also he touchingly ...
Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media Empire

Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media Empire

Jerome Tuccille

In his biography of media baron Murdoch, Tuccille (vice president, T. Rowe Price Investment Services) concentrates on Murdoch's business activities, chronicling how he built a newspaper and broadcast empire and a vast fortune for himself.
The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch

The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch

Anne Rowe

Ines Schlenker suggests that this allusion "captures the essence of the remodelled interior of a formerly musty and old-fashioned house . . . [where] 'the drawing room . . . was now painted a glowing aquamarine adorned with a huge scarlet ...
Iris Murdoch and Morality

Iris Murdoch and Morality

Anne Rowe

The literary critic Peter Beatson notes that 'in all of White's novels, characters find their God in human form [...] God is too vast to be embraced directly, and a local habitation must be found for him'.12 White's concept of Christ sees him as a ...
Modern Utopian Fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch

Modern Utopian Fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch

Peter Edgerly Firchow

'This book will inspire readers to devote more time to this literature, and it will be invaluable to those designing courses on utopian fiction. Highly recommended' - ""Choice"".
Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film

Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film

Robert Sitton

HLS from Iris Barry to Edmund Schiddel dated “March 16?” and received april 2, 1954 (Schiddel). 18. TLS from Iris Barry to Charles abbott, Mar. 23, 1959 (Buffalo) . 19. TLS from Iris Barry to Edmund Schiddel, undated (Schiddel). 38.
Virtual Murdoch: reality wars on the information highway

Virtual Murdoch: reality wars on the information highway

Neil Chenoweth

Stephen Keating, Cutthroat, p. 26. 183 'Plan A: Hope Murdoch's plans . . .': Cutthroat, p. 206. 184 'Rupert, we're trying to sell . . .': Stephen Keating, Cutthroat, p. 207. 184 'Rupert Murdoch is an old friend . . .': 'Cable sees clouds in Sky', ...
God Leads in Perplexities, Joys and Sorrows

God Leads in Perplexities, Joys and Sorrows

Iris Hayden Stober

Iris Hayden Stober. Dedication This book is dedicated to Carmen, my joy and reason for living after the accident. Acknowledgment Iris became acquainted with Carolyn Byers in Sequim, Washington,
A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

Raimond Gaita

Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simon Weil, Primo Levi, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch and Sigmund Freud, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.
Iris and Walter: True friends

Iris and Walter: True friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Iris and Walter: True Friends

Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Iris and Walter: True Friends

Iris and Walter: True Friends

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter shows Iris how to make friends with his horse, Rain, and in turn, Iris helps Walter deal with a problem at school.
Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar ...

Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar ...

Margaret Scanlan

In this stimulating volume, Margaret Scanlan answers a convincing "no," as she demonstrates the relevance of historical novels by well-known figures such as Anthony Burgess, John le Carr, Graham Greene, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, and Paul ...
Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and ...

Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and ...

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ChristinaM.Bellon (2008: viii) describes Iris Marion Young in a special Hypatia issue: Iris Young was perhaps one of the most influential political philosophers of our time. Her work demonstrated the practicality of, andtheoretical flexibility for, ...
Iris and Walter and the Field Trip

Iris and Walter and the Field Trip

Elissa Haden Guest

When best friends Iris and Walter go on a field trip to an aquarium, Walter gets lost and a worried Iris helps Miss Cherry look for him.
Iris and Walter and Cousin Howie

Iris and Walter and Cousin Howie

Elissa Haden Guest

Walter is so excited that his favorite cousin, Howie, is coming to visit. He is sure that Iris will like Howie as much as he does. But nine year-old Howie has other plans . . . and none of them include Iris.
Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe: The Salvation Army ...

Christian Warfare in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe: The Salvation Army ...

Norman H. Murdoch

This book has been a long time in the making. norman murdoch began archival and field research towards it at the beginning of the 1990s, and it was largely finished within ten years. Unfortunately busyness with other tasks and then illness in ...
From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Frank Baermann ...

From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Frank Baermann ...

Franz Baermann Steiner

The Portraits of Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, and Franz Baermann Steiner by Marie -Louise von Motesiczky Ines Schlenker It might be quite appropriate to call Marie- Louise von Motesiczky a 'well-kept secret'. Only a relatively small circle of ...
Iris and Walter and Baby Rose

Iris and Walter and Baby Rose

Elissa Haden Guest

Iris thought that having a baby sister would be just like playing with a doll.
Iris and Walter, Lost and Found

Iris and Walter, Lost and Found

Elissa Haden Guest

Iris's baby sister Rose breaks a necklace and then is discovered playing with Walter's missing harmonica.
Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young

Dancing with Iris: The Philosophy of Iris Marion Young

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The essays are organized into topic areas that are of interest to students in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, feminist theory, and political philosophy.
Iris And Walter: The School Play

Iris And Walter: The School Play

Elissa Haden Guest

Iris is devastated when she has to miss being in her first school play because she is sick.
Iris and Walter: The Sleepover

Iris and Walter: The Sleepover

Elissa Haden Guest

Iris cannot wait to have her first sleepover at her best friend Walter's house.
The Rape of Nanking the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

The Rape of Nanking the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Iris Chang

During November 1937, in the space of seven weeks Japanese troops murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers. Iris Chang's examination of the incident throws into relief the fact that Japan has never apologised for it.
Finger Painting Weekend Workshop: A Beginner's Guide to ...

Finger Painting Weekend Workshop: A Beginner's Guide to ...

Iris Scott

Complete with five masterpieces and clear, step-by-step instructions for recreating each one, this book makes you feel like you are sitting right in one of Iris's best-selling finger painting classes.
Solving Organizational Problems: A Proven Method for Groups ...

Solving Organizational Problems: A Proven Method for Groups ...

Chris Christensen

Gerald Nadler and Iris Firstenberg are associates of mine and I respect their work on the subject of creativity ... Breakthrough Thinking, and Iris Firstenberg has coauthored one with Moshe Rubinstein entitled Patterns ofProblem Solving.
Justice and the Politics of Difference

Justice and the Politics of Difference

Iris Marion Young

In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice.

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