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Authorship, language and textual pathology: Linguistic changes in Iris Murdoch’s informal novels

Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus

Prof. Peter Garrard Iris Murdoch’s profound and well-documented late life cognitive decline was caused by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and tau tangles in her brain: the molecular signature of Alzheimer’s disease. Yet plaque and tangle deposition begins many years, if not decades, before cognitive changes first emerge, so the discovery of methods for defining […]