LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 10 : 11 November 2010
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Aligning the Connotations of Love and Freedom in
the Novels of Iris Murdoch

Tanu Kashyap, M.Phil., Ph.D.

Women Writers in English

Women have been writing in English since the 18th century. Some of the most famous novelists have been Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and Virginia Woolf, to name a few.

Iris Murdoch

Iris Murdoch is a contemporary woman novelist who has given a new meaning to the existence of women novelists with a new connotation to the meaning of love and freedom in her novels. Iris Murdoch.s novels have deep impressions of French Existentialist Movement. She read Jean Paul Sartre.s La Nauseˇ± in 1945. She had a close encounter with war and devastations during her stint as UNRRA volunteer working for the refugees in Belgium and Austria. In the back drop of bloodshed and depravation love and freedom acquired a new dimension in Murdoch's literature.

To assert Iris Murdoch as a major contemporary writer is to suggest something of the post-war novel in Britain. With the publication of her first novel UNDER THE NET (1954), she emerged not only as one of the most productive and influential British novelists of her generation but also as a powerful intellectual and original theorist of fiction. The increasingly evident liveliness and variety of British fiction since the war has contrasted very curiously with a sense of restraint about aesthetic discussion of the novel. She has emphasized that she aimed to write as a realist, in an identifiable ˇ°nineteenth century tradition of English and European fiction. 1 When Murdoch says that she is a realist, she probably means that her writing is inevitably concerned with the contemporary conditions.

Iris Murdoch has indicated the difficulties and the potential of contemporary fiction, especially in the British tradition. Both her view and her practice reflect the novel today. To some critics, it seems as though her writing career enacts a retreat into the safety of an anti- modernist position. Such people find it hard to accept the claim that she advances in an age of aesthetic and epistemological uncertainty. She has very strong admiration for nineteenth century's great writers (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Dickens) and what lay behind their achievements - Shakespeare, whom she has described more than once as a "patron saint".

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