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‘Luminous Shades’: Iris Murdoch and William Blake
George Steiner commented in Existentialists and Mystics that Iris Murdoch’s writings present ‘[l]uminous shades of Blake’s “holiness of the minute particular”’. This lecture explores some of the ways in which Murdoch engages with this oft-maligned Romantic visionary, whose works are referenced in her fiction, her letters and her philosophy. Blake and Murdoch share a dialectical moral vision that suggests the necessity for revolutionary violence, seeks an acknowledgement of evil, and invites the
6-7.30 p.m. Free and open to all.
Cloisters, Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester
College Lane, West Sussex PO19 6PE
Sat 23 Feb 2019
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