CLASSIFICATION OF NARRATIVE CHARACTER IN THE NOVELS OF IRIS MURDOCH
Keywords:
Iris Murdoch, tradition, novel, realism, artistic, critical, hero, personage.Abstract
This article is dedicated to the Murdoch's constant desire to write within a realistic tradition is evidence in favor of literature feeding on her lineage rather than eating in favor of a return to the 19th century. The basis of nineteenth-century realism was a careful perception and description of the history of heroes and the environment: the original polemical statements of realism fought hard to confirm that the realist writer was a writer for society; the author's work was a mirror of life, reflecting “the blue of heaven and the beauty of nature”. Murdoch's idea of the artistic traditions of realism, which he hoped to place his work on, is broader than the specific historical events characteristic of the novel, involving Shakespeare and the great artists of all time.
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