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Iris Murdoch Birthday Lecture: Lampooning Iris: Jaundiced Views and Academic Questions

Tuesday 15 July @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

£5.00 – £10.00
Iris Murdoch caricature

In this lecture Miles Leeson, Director of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester, will discuss Murdoch’s reception by her contemporaries and look at the lighter side of how she was lampooned, both directly and indirectly, in the work of H.E. Bates, Malcolm Bradbury, Brigid Brophy, Barbara Pym and Ian McEwan, as well as the reception of her work by Philip Larkin and Monica Jones. Whilst a good deal of this was affectionate, and some even complementary, there was also a streak of jealousy and cruelty present. As Murdoch grew in popularity, and as a public intellectual figure, this became commonplace and is part of the mythic figure of ‘Iris’ that was played out in the 2001 film, but has now has begun to fade from the public imagination. Miles’s lecture asks what it might mean for us to admire her work today in the light of these texts.

Price: £5 IMS Members, £10 all others

Online via Zoom. Link will be emailed to attendees the day before the lecture.

Details

Date:
Tuesday 15 July
Time:
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost:
£5.00 – £10.00

Venue

Zoom

Organiser

Miles Leeson
Email
m.leeson@chi.ac.uk

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