Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger : imaginations and images / Rebecca Moden.

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Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger : imaginations and images / Rebecca Moden.

9783031179457 (electronic bk.)
3031179455 (electronic bk.)
3031179447
9783031179440

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.

English

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

10.1007/978-3-031-17945-7 doi

PR6063.U7

823/.91409

The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdochs novels chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good Apprentice (1985), and two enigmatic late novels, The Green Knight (1993) and Jacksons Dilemma (1995) perceived through the prism of her discourse with Weinberger. It draws upon a run of almost 400 letters from Murdoch to Weinberger, and upon Murdochs philosophical writings, Weinbergers private writings, the remarks of both artists in interviews, and other material relating to their views on art and art history, much of which is unpublished and has received no previous critical attention. Scrutiny of their shared values, methods and the imagistic dialogue that takes place in their art provides original perspectives on Murdochs creativity, and new ways of understanding her experimentation with the visual arts. This book offers a new line of enquiry into Murdoch's novels, and into the relationship between literature and the visual arts.

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