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ENG 144 D

Iris Murdoch: Introduction to the writer, themes and issues in her works

  • Significance of paintings and art of characterization
  • Relationship between art and life in the works of Murdoch
  • Impact of paintings on characters
  • Moral dilemma and human relationships
  • Influence of past on present

 

 

Visual Art and Literature: An Introduction to Theory of Aesthetics

Fry, Roger. “An Essay in Aesthetics”.New Quarterly,1909.

Mattick, Paul. Art in Its Time: Theories and practices of modern aesthetics. Routledge, 2003, pp. 1-8.

Murray, Chris, editor. Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.Routledge, 2004, pp. 220-222.

 

 

The Sand Castle (1957)

 

 

The Bell (1958)

 

The Nice and the Good (1968)

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bove, K. Cheryl. Understanding Iris Murdoch. Understanding Iris Murdoch (Understanding Contemporary British Literature). University of South California Press, 2011.

Byatt, A.S. Degrees of Freedom: The Early Novels of Iris Murdoch. Vintage, 1994.

Fry, Roger. “An Essay in Aesthetics”. New Quarterly,1909.

Kaehele, Sharon and Howard German. “The Discovery of Reality in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell”. PMLA, vol. 82, no.7, 1967, pp. 554-563, JSTOR,www.jstor.org/stable/461164.

Mattick, Paul. Art in Its Time: Theories and practices of modern aesthetics. Routledge, 2003, pp. 1-8.

Murray, Chris, editor.Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century.Routledge, 2004, pp. 220-222.

Punja, P.P.The Novels of Iris Murdoch: A Critical Study. ABS Publishers, 1993.

Spear, Hilda D. Modern Novelists: Iris Murdoch. Macmillan, 1995.

 

Academic Year: 
2018-2019