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Bibliography BIBLIOGRAPHY WORKS BY IRIS MURDOCH Novels Under the Net (Chatto & Windus, London, 1954; Penguin Books, Harmond- sworth, 1960) The Flight from the Enchanter (Chatto & Windus, London, 1956; Penguin Books, Harmondworth, 1960) The Sandcastle (Chatto & Windus, London, 1957; Penguin Books, Harmond- sworth,1960) The Bell (Chatto & Windus, London, 1958; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1962) A Severed Head (Chatto & Windus, London, 1961; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1963 An Unofficial Rose (Chatto & Windus, London, 1962; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1964) The Unicorn (Chatto & Windus, London, 1963; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1966) The Italian Girl (Chatto & Windus, London, 1964; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1967) The Red and the Green (Chatto & Windus, London, 1965) The Time of the Angels (Chatto & Windus, London, 1966; Penguin Books, Har­ mondsworth, 1968) The Nice and the Good (Chatto & Windus, London, 1968; Penguin Books, Har­ mondsworth, 1970) Bruno's Dream (Chatto & Windus, London 1969; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1971) A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Chatto & Windus, London, 1970; Penguin Books, Harmonsworth, 1972 An Accidental Man (Chatto & Windus, London, 1971; Penguin Books, Har­ mondsworth, 1973) The Black Prince (Chatto & Windus, London, 1973; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1975) The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Chatto & Windus, London, 1974) A Word Child (Chatto & Windus, London, 1975; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1976) 85 Henry and Cato (Chatto & Windus, London, 1976; Penguin Books, Harmond- sworth 1978) The Sea, the Sea (Chatto & Windus, London, 1978; Penguin Books, Harmond- sworth, 1980) Nuns and Soldiers (Chatto & Windus, London, 1980; Penguin Books, Harmond­ sworth, 1981) The Philosopher's Pupil (Chatto & Windus, London, 1983; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984) The Good Apprentice (Chatto & Windus, London, 1985; Penguin Books, Har­ mondsworth, 1986) The Book and the Brotherhood (Chatto & Windus, London, 1987; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1988) The Message to the Planet (Chatto & Windus, London, 1989; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1990) Plays The Three Arrows and The Servants and the Snow (Chatto & Windus, London, 1973) Acastos. Two Platonic Dialogues (Chatto & Windus, London, 1986) Articles, philosophy "The Novelist as Metaphysician", The Listener, 16 March 1950, pp. 473-6. "The Existentialist Hero", The Listener, 23 March, 1950, pp. 523-4 Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge, 1953; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1989) "Knowing the Void", Spectator, 2 November, 1956, pp. 613-14 "Against Dryness", Encounter, 16 January, 1961, pp. 16-20 The Sovereignty of Good (Oxford University Press, London, 1970; ARK Edition 1985) The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists (Oxford University Press, London, 1977) CRITICISM OF IRIS MURDOCH Books Byatt, A.S. Degrees of Freedom : The Novels of Iris Murdoch (Chatto & Win­ dus, London, 1965) Byatt, A.S. Iris Murdoch (Longman, London, 1976) Conradi, Peter Iris Murdoch: the Saint and the Artist (Macmillan, London, 1986) 86 Dipple, Elizabeth Iris Murdoch: Work for the Spirit. (Methuen, London, 1982) Johnson, Deborah Iris Murdoch (The Harvester Press, Brighton, 1987) Kane, Richard C. Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, and John Fowles. Didactic de­ mons in modem fiction. (Associated University Presses, 1988) Rabinovitz, Rubin Iris Murdoch (Columbia University Press, 1968) Ramanathan, Suguna Iris Murdoch, Figures of Good (Macmillan, London, 1990) Todd, Richard Iris Murdoch: The Shakespearian Interest (Vision, London, 1979) Todd, Richard Iris Murdoch (Methuen, London, 1984) Allen, Walter Tradition and Dream (Phoenix, London, 1964) Appleyard, Brian "Tiny Spark" in The Pleasures of Peace (Faber & Faber, Lon­ don, 1989) Bradbury, Malcolm "A House Fit for Free Characters" in No, Not Bloomsbury (Andre Deutsch, London, 1987) Haffenden, John "Iris Murdoch" in Novelists in Interview (Methuen, London, 1985) Jeffares, A. Norman Anglo-Irish Literature (Macmillan, London, 1982) Marwick, Arthur Culture in Britain Since 1945 (Basil Blackwell, 1991) Stevenson, Randall The British Novel Since the Thirties (Batsford, London, 1986) Wall, Stephen The Twentieth Century, edited by Bernard Bergonzi; Sphere His­ tory of Literature in the English Language (London, 1970) Articles, Reviews, Interviews Biles, Jack I. "An Interview with Iris Murdoch" in British Novelists Since 1900, ed. by Jack I. Biles (New York, 1987) Bryden, Ronald 'Talking to Iris Murdoch", The Listener, 4 April, 1968, pp. 433- 4 Byatt, A.S. "The Murdoch Theatre", Books and Bookmen, October, 1978 Cantú, Yolande Iris Murdoch: Under the Net (The British Council, 1976) Clark, Stephen R.L. "Iris Murdoch: The Book and the Brotherhood", TLS, No 4,405, Sept. 4 - 11, 1987 Conradi, Peter "Useful Fictions: Iris Murdoch", Critical Quarterly, vol. 23, 1981 Fallowell, Duncan "Plotting the Emotional Course", Books and Bookmen, June, 1974 Kermode, Frank "Iris Murdoch" in Modern Essays (Fontana/Collins, London 1971), pp. 261-6 Magee, Bryan "Iris Murdoch on natural novelists and unnatural philosophers", The Listener, 4 April, 1968, pp. 533-35 Modern Fiction Studies, 15, 1969. Iris Murdoch Special Number (Contains arti­ cles by Ann Culley, Linda Kuehl, Howard German, Raymond J. Porter, 87 Alice P. Kennedy, Peter Kemp, Frank Baldanza, William F. Hall, Wil­ liam M. Murray) Sage, Loma "In Pursuit of Imperfection", Critical Quarterly, 19, 2, 1977, pp. 61-8 Sinclair, Clive "Iris Murdoch: The Message to the Planet, TLS, No 4,516, Oct. 20 - 26,1989 Stubbs, Patricia 'Two Contemporary Views on Fiction: Iris Murdoch and Muriel Spark", English, vol.XXIII, No 117,1974 IRIS MURDOCH IN CZECH Criticism, reviews Hilský, Martin „Iris Murdoch: Moře, moře", Světová literatura, 6, 1979 „Iris Murdoch: Jeptišky a vojáci", Světová literatura, 3, 1982 „Cesty a rozcestí současného anglického románu", Světová litera­ tura, 1,2,3, 1984 „Britská próza 1987", Světová litaratura, 6, 1988 Současný britský román (H a H, Praha, 1992) Stříbrný, Zdeněk Dějiny anglické literatury (Academia, Praha, 1987) Vančura, Zdeněk Dvacet let anglického románu 1945-1964 (Academia, Praha, 1976) Translations Iris Murdochová Pod sítí, transl. Eliška Hornátová (Odeon, Praha, 1968) Iris Murdochová Hrad z pisku, transl. Helena Prokopová (Mladá Fronta, Praha, 1972) Iris Murdochová „Proti vybroušenosti", transl. Karel Klusák, Světová literatura, 1, 1992 Unpublished dissertations Bayerová, Jarmila A Comparison of the Artistic Aim and Method of Elizabeth Bowen and Iris Murdoch (undergraduate dissertation, UJEP Brno, 1966) Havlová, Zdeňka Ms Murdoch (undegraduate dissertation, Charles University, Prague, 1966) Janoušek, Miroslav Two Views of Evil in Man and Society (A Study of William Golding and Ms Murdoch) (doctoral thesis, UJEP Brno, 1973) Mikulík, Petr The Social and Philosophical Commitment of Iris Murdoch As Expressed in Her Creative Approach and Procedure in Prose Fiction (undergraduate dissertation, UJEP Brno, 1984) Rohan, Pavel Romány Iris Murdochové (undergraduate dissertation, Charles Uni­ versity, Prague, 1970) 88 OTHERS Freud, Sigmund Totem and Taboo (Pelican Books, 1938) Jameson, Frederic "The Realist Floor Plan" in On Signs, ed. by Marshall Blonsky (The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1985) Sartre, Jean-Paul "Existentialism" in The Norton Reader (W.W.Norton & Com­ pany, New York, 1984) Lacan, Jacques "Sign, Symbol, Imaginary" in On Signs, ed. by Marshall Blonsky (The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1985) 89 .
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